Dialogue – FF010

Dialogue is a huge part of fiction. If written well, it can provide information and will move the story along quicker than the narrative.

This Fiction Fundamental will talk about the following elements of dialogue:

• How to know when to switch paragraphs
• Beats and tags
• Dialogue without beats or tags
• Ending with hesitancy vs. being cut off
• Faltering speech
• Backward tags
• Matching dialogue to the characters
• Foreign words
• Punctuation and quotation marks
• Quoting Scripture in fiction