Category: Writing Tips

• Writing Dialogue

  

  Basic Tips: Indentations: Each paragraph is indented except for the start of a chapter or a scene break. When a scene breaks, the first line, and dialogue are never indented. Quotations: What the character is saying must go inside the quotation marks. The only time when there are no quotations is when there are long speeches in…

  Jody Bullis

  April 30, 2023

  Writing Tips

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• Show Don’t Tell Tips

  

  What is Show Don’t Tell? Show don’t tell is easily described as a writing technique that allows the reader to experience the story through actions, feelings, thoughts, and dialogue instead of summarization and description. Ex: Don’t tell me she had been crying, show me that her eyes were puffy and red with streaks running down…

  Jody Bullis

  April 30, 2023

  Writing Tips

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