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How to Use and Not Use Dialogue Tags in Your Fiction
When “he said/she said” will suffice and when to get creative
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6 min readDec 15, 2020
When it comes to fiction writing, there are a lot of rules and tips out there on how to handle dialogue tags. You know, the “he said/she said” attached to lines of dialogue. On the one hand, there are circulating lists of…
