Dialog Tags/Swifties/Contests

Dialogue tags often consist of only two words, such as "he said." Said is the recommended verb because the word become invisible to the reader. There's an interesting dialog tag called Tom Swiftie. Or Swiftie. Or Swifty. A Swiftie is a sentence in which a phrase and the dialog tag become a pun. The name dates back to the early 1900s when author Edward L. Stratemeyer wrote a series of books about a character named Tom Swift. Stratemeyer also created the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and the Hard...