The Art of Dialogue by Brenda Chapman

This week’s question: Dialogue tags. Hints. Tips. Gripes.
Well maybe not exactly a question.
To be honest, my dialogue use continues to be a work in progress. Looking back, I believe that I didn't use enough dialogue in my earliest books. Best sellers usually have quite a bit of dialogue, and I enjoy reading books with a lot of conversation among characters, so this is a part of novel-writing that I've worked to get more comfortable using.
So dialogue tags are prompts that tell us which characte...