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What is the Priority in an Action/Adventure Novel: Dialogues or Conflict?
I am currently working on a novel and I was having some trouble finding the best solution for this question. I understand that both dialogues and conflicts are needed in a good proportion to cook a ...
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Meretricious - A bit too fancy?
I have a character that I want to sound very intelligent, well educated, someone who always uses the correct words with no unnecessary filler.
I have found the word 'meretricious' which has the ...
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First conversation scenes I've written (looking for errors, conventions, and improvements according to writing standards)
I would like to know if I'm doing something wrong (according to writing standards) in the following conversation and how to improve it to help readability, quality and feeling (making it more ...
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What are good dialog writing tips? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How should dialog be formatted?
Writing dialogue has been a challenge.
From the punctuations to the tags, it all still very confusing for me.
Some stuff I want to know:
What ...
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Dialog, just what's the best way to write it?
I've come across the following conventions:
"What’s this for?" asked Jake.
Sue replied, "None of your business."
He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, it looks darned funny sitting here."
"It’s ...
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Character with extreme manners
My objective is Victorian-style tea-drinking "upper class" lady characters. (It's more of a writing challenge.)
Does anyone have any useful resources or tips for creating such a character? ...
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How should dialog be formatted?
Is there any "official" rule that I should keep in mind when formatting character dialog?
Line breaks, placement of quotes, mixing dialog with action descriptions etc.
For example, I want to build a ...
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What's the best way to show a foreign language in a manuscript?
What's the best way to show a character speaking a foreign language in a fiction manuscript? Should the foreign words be italicized and include a translation? Should it just be included in the ...
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Writing 19th century upperclass English dialog
I was recently rereading bits of Pride and Prejudice and the dialog is absolutely brilliant. How can I learn to write dialog that sounds like it is from this general era? For example are there any ...
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