Timeline for Dialog, just what's the best way to write it?
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| Oct 12, 2013 at 5:50 | comment | added | micapam | @OneMonkey is on the money there. | |
| Mar 4, 2011 at 13:01 | vote | accept | srcspider | ||
| Mar 4, 2011 at 13:01 | comment | added | srcspider | Not really writing a novel; meaning what I'm writing is not near novel length. However, you make a very good case for action tags and how they improve the writing. | |
| Mar 4, 2011 at 11:34 | comment | added | One Monkey | If your novel is of a particular type (either lit fic or gimmicky) you can have sections in full on screenplay format, something Stephen Fry did in Making History. In genre novels you have to go a long way to get away with that kind of stuff. But writing it straight out like the draft of a play isn't appropriate unless the reader can gain some meaning from your adoption of the approach. | |
| Mar 4, 2011 at 1:20 | comment | added | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | +1 for the term "action tags," which I had not heard before and I LOVE. | |
| Mar 3, 2011 at 23:58 | history | answered | Ralph Gallagher | CC BY-SA 2.5 |