https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:59:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2026/04/how-to-use-dialogue-tags-and-keep-the-flow/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2026/04/how-to-use-dialogue-tags-and-keep-the-flow/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:12:00 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=56720 Well-written dialogue tags help our understanding of emotion and tone, not ruining the flow. Read on to learn effective uses of tags in dialogue.

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The post Tag Your Dialogue with Big-Time Power! first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2025/01/tag-your-dialogue-with-big-time-power/feed/ 88 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2011/06/writing-a-deeper-story/ Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:06:52 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=1534 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 […]

The post Writing a Deeper Story first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2011/02/dialogue-tags/ Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:49:40 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=657 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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