Friday, May 12, 2017

Narrative dialogue notes



  • watch your tags 
  • what goes before she said I said quietly
  • use sparingly but to enhance tone
  • realistic doesn't mean real get rid of um
  • not a transcript
  • use purposeful punctuation
  • give speech patternes due to charctor poatterns
  • age background and education
  • cut out names and see if you can tell who said what
  • dont have to begin at first sentence or last one 
  • start at the meat
  • punctation
  • everry time somone speaks start a new line
  • use a double quotation
  • punctuation in parentheses
  • comma or period? do not understand
  • in anovel diouluge should

    • reveal charctors relationship
    • move the story forwardd
    • increase  tenison
    • develop chaecrtors emotions or traits
  • do not use as a filler
  • use said less

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