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Tag Your Dialogue with Big-Time Power!

Many opportunities important to the story are missed if you use simple dialogue tags. Margie Lawson shows how to grab that emotion. Get it on the page!

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Writing a Deeper Story

By Laura Drake ANNOUNCEMENT: Writers in the Storm is kicking off the summer with a series of guest blogs and we are so excited! First in our Summer Line-up is social media guru, Kristen Lamb. Not only is she the author of two best-selling books, We Are Not Alone–The Writer’s Guide to Social Media and […]

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Dialogue Tags: How to Kill Off Some Of The Little Buggers

by Sharla Rae In Laura Drake’s recent blog My Editing Peeves, here at WITS, she points out dialogue tags. I have to agree that too many “saids” on a page or even in a chapter are annoying. Sure there are other tags like snarled, whispered, interjected, cried etc. But again, they stand out if overused. Included […]

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