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Ep. 309 - Reading Dialogue Without Tags: How to Keep Every Character Clear
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When a book drops the "he said" and "she said", you can lose track of who's talking, and so can your listener. In this episode I go through how I prep a scene like that and how to make each character easy to follow without doing big voices. Then the two mistakes I hear most.
(01:18) The problem. Some authors leave out the dialogue tags, sometimes on purpose. As the narrator you still have to know who's speaking, and it gets harder when there are more than two people in the scene.
(03:09) Prep first. At the very least, read the chapter before you narrate it. Then mark the…
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