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How to provide translations, moods, and registry in multilanguage dialog within an narration in English?

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How to create dialogue in a book?

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Can my narrator's thoughts be in the same paragraph as another character's dialogue?

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Does every piece of dialogue need a dialogue tag like "she said"?

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"Enid Blyton" way to concede a point? Traditional upper class public school slang referred

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How to convey the voice of an entity that fluidly switches from a single mind to multiple minds?

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