Don't Be Chunky - Put Your Dialogue in Paragraphs

April 20, 2022 00:08:19
Don't Be Chunky - Put Your Dialogue in Paragraphs
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Don't Be Chunky - Put Your Dialogue in Paragraphs

Apr 20 2022 | 00:08:19

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Carrie Jones Shaun Farrar

Show Notes

It’s a super quick writing tip again today. Ready? When you’re writing dialogue, make every new speaker a new paragraph. If you’re writing kids books? You might as well just keep each dialogue a paragraph of their own? Why? Our brains are wired to read each paragraph as a new speaker. If we jumble a […]

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