Showing posts with label dialogue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dialogue. Show all posts
Monday, October 28, 2024

The Importance of Context Clues

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  Last week I talked about using context clues to understand the foreign language phrases used in one of my current projects. Knowing how to...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Translation or Context? Using Foreign Languages in Novels

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  One of my current projects is Not the Enemy , a story about a German American girl living in Illinois during World War I. For various reas...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Who Said That?

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  In last week’s post, I mentioned the problems with overusing “said” as a dialogue tag, especially in an audio book. This seems like a good...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Pop or Soda? Using Dialogue to Create Regional Characters

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  Following up on last week’s blog, today’s post gives more tips for using dialogue. This is a reprint of another article I wrote for the In...
Monday, March 15, 2021

Who Said That?

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  Lately I’ve read several stories by authors don’t know how to handle dialogue. Either I can’t figure out who is speaking, or the dialogue ...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Words, Words, Words

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This week I’m covering the last two classifications in the rubric. The first has to do with the spoken word as depicted on the page, and...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Writing Slave Dialogue

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My current work-in-progress is about a Mississippi riverboat disaster, and part of it is set in Louisiana. The year is 1850, and slavery...