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Did You Really Mean What You Said?
Dialogue in writing differs from real conversations. Fictional characters rarely ramble on for pages, circumventing what they really want to say with phrases that sound good but have hard to pinpoint meanings. Most of the uh’s, um’s and pauses in … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Literary devices, Style and voice, Writer's resource, Writing trends
Tagged catch phrases, conversation, descriptions in dialog tags, dialog, dialog tags, editing out style, filler words in dialog, quality dialog, removing personality from characters, voice in writing
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