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honey:
Yeah, that's why writing in screenplay format is so hard. You can't use words like *gasped or *grumbled. and you can't go inside the character's heads. You have to show everything through dialog and actions and that's it.  ...very hard   but extremely exciting and visual if done properly.

MellzBellz:

--- Quote from: starbeamz2 on April 05, 2007, 09:35:23 PM ---I've heard the dialogue tags thing, too, so I'm trying to follow that. I've realized that it's really hard to come up with all sorts of different verbs without the writing sounding strange, so I've been following some of my favorite published novelists and leaving a lot of the "said"'s and "explained"s out. I've found it easier to describe what the person is doing (i.e. taking off a hat, walking towards the door) and then have dialogue wound around that. It sounds more natural than having she said and he said with every line of dialogue.

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Yea... that's what I'm working on doing too. Describing action vs a dialogue tag, but its hard. When I started writing Sexcapades, Laura told me the one rule was NO dialogue tags. OMG that was REALLY hard for me, but it got easier and it works with the style of that story. Now for UMS I still get stuck w/ dialogue tags a lot. I've gotten better though. And it REALLY is tough to think of original verbs so you're not repeating yourself.

mare:
Yeah, I don't know if I agree with everything he said. Especially about the word said lol but I did think it was interesting. If I find anymore of these, I will pass them along.

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