Writing Craft Basics: How to Format Dialogue

Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author :

If your brain is any amount of scattered like mine, now might be a good time to cover some of the basics of our writing craft. So lets tackle a subject I havent dug into here before: dialogue formatting and a few dos and donts.

I originally started this post intending to dig deeper into a dialogue point-of-view question a reader asked, but the introduction of these formatting basics took up the whole post. Oops! So rather than...