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Tag Archives: dialog beats
Writer Wednesdays: Dialog tags vs. dialog beats
Don’t use dialog tags and beats together! I casually mentioned this in a previous post, and I think a lot of readers were confused. Certainly some of my writers have been! Here’s the dialog tag: “I hate you,” Joe said. … Continue reading
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Tagged action, dialog beats, dialog tags, emotion, scene building
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Writer Wednesdays: Publishers hate when you …
Now that I edit for a couple of publishing houses, I have the inside scoop on what publishers hate to see. So I’ll pass them on to you! Fix these things before you send your book into a publisher, and … Continue reading
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Tagged -ly words, adverbs, all caps, colons, dialog beats, dialog tags, double spaces, ellipses, em dashes, head hopping, publishing, punctuation, semicolons, sentence structure, showing, telling, underlining
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