by Autumn | Mar 6, 2019 | Tips, Writing
How many characters are speaking in a paragraph of your writing? Really, the question is how many characters should be speaking in one paragraph? We’ve been covering dialogue for a few posts now, and it is time to move on from ways of designating who is speaking with...
by Autumn | Oct 22, 2018 | Tips
Welcome to the third post on dialogue. In the last two, we’ve covered dialogue tags and how to use adverbs to accentuate those. Now we are on to action tags! Before we get into those, let’s look at how far the examples have come: “Where is it?” Cameron asked....
by Autumn | Sep 26, 2018 | Tips, Writing
Last time, we delved into dialogue tags, including if you really always have to use “said.” There was a lot covered in that post and if you missed it, check it out here. In our examples, we managed to clarify who was speaking and how many people are...
by Autumn | Sep 10, 2018 | Tips, Writing
Dialogue is so important to a story. It breaks up pages of prose. It reveals a character’s personality like no other method except for internal thoughts. But so many authors get it wrong. And that is understandable because there is a lot going on with dialogue. In...
by Autumn | May 6, 2016 | News and Events
I talk a lot on this blog about tips to improve your writing. Because great writing is important to me. Not just as an indie writer wanting to make the perception of self publishing a bit more elevated. But because, as a reader, I just want to read more darn good...
