Is it time to rethink dialogue tags?
Someone close to me is the product of an expensive private education, a university graduate, with a well-enunciated RP accent and a...
In writing. Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was 'terrible,' describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, 'Please will you do my job for me'.
C.S. Lewis
Is it time to rethink dialogue tags?
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