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Category: Characterization

Characterization, dialogue, Romance, Uncategorized

Dialogue: Show and Tell

October 2, 2017 Jana Miller

The other day I was thinking about how different a scene can be depending on how the dialogue is written. Not just the lines themselves, but the tags, the action, the tone and gestures. So I asked my author- sister, Annette Larsen, to play with some scenes from her books to demonstrate. She's taken a… Continue reading Dialogue: Show and Tell

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