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
Category: dialogue
You Can’t Shrug a Line
Which words can be used as dialogue tags?
Give Me a Beat
Filling out dialogue with meaningful pauses and human moments