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How to Write a Novel – 3 Quick Tips
Writing Dialogue
When writing, your work can be spoilt by dialogues which are littered with he said, she said, he said, she said.
Try using some of the words listed to help make your dialogue come alive: Accepted, accused, added, admitted, advised, agreed, announced, answered, approved, argued, asked, asserted, barked, bawled, begged, bellowed, berated, blasted, boasted, bragged, called, charged, checked, chortled, clarified, commanded, complained, complimented, conceded, confessed, confirmed, continued, conveyed, countered, cried, defined, demanded, directed, disagreed, elaborated, enquired, erupted, explained, exploded, forecast, gasped, gloated, griped, groaned, grumbled, guessed, gushed, helped, hypothesized, insisted, interjected, interrupted, invited, joked, laughed, lectured, lied, maintained, moaned, mumbled, murmured, objected, observed, offered, ordered, persisted, pleaded, predicted, probed, proposed, queried, questioned, quipped, reasoned, recommended, reinforced, relayed, relented, remarked, replied, reported, resolved, responded, retorted, revealed, scolded, screamed, shouted, shrieked, snapped, stuttered, specified, speculated, spluttered, submitted, suggested, swore, taunted, teased, threatened, verified, volunteered, warned, wept, whispered. Example: "You need to do this," insisted John. Of course the sentence can be restructured too.
It is not always necessary to say who has said what. An example of this would if a man and woman were arguing. The woman is shouting at the man, who has accepted he is in the wrong. If the scene has been set in the story then you can assume that the reader will have worked out who is shouting and who is apologizing. Do not worry about the length of dialogues within your work; what matters is relevancy to the story. Sometimes one spoken word can have a big impact, other times a page or two blends into the story and fits in well.
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