Video: How to Break Up Dialogue and Action in a Story or Novel

How do I break up action and dialogue in a novel or short story? Where do the paragraph breaks go? Can the dialogue and action go within the same paragraph, or do they need to be separated?

These are common questions among first-time fiction writers. I know, because several people have asked me this through my YouTube channel. So I figured this topic deserved a video of its own. You’ll find it above.

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