The other day, in a moment of either boredom, inspiration, or curiosity, I searched for speech tags in Twilight. (For those of you who haven't heard the term, a speech tag is a word used to describe how dialogue is spoken. Many writers feel that "said" is the right choice nearly all of the time. Some writers prefer to have their characters burble, cajole, chirp, and implore. I suspect most readers don't care either way, but if you are aware of speech tags, they tend to leap out.) I can't...
Published on August 12, 2010 06:06