Just listen to any real-life conversation and you will see it has little resemblance to the dialogue written in novels. In fact, it can be argued that if you were writing dialogue in the same way as it being spoken, it would produce confusing and difficult to read prose.
One mistake writers often make is to believe that written dialogue should reflect real life conversation. Now we have this out of the way, let’s look more deeply at the concepts behind writing good dialogue. If you want a detailed guide to formatting dialogue, this article will help. The dialogue (in this case HELLO) is correctly attributed to Bill, but, rather than using SAID, we've used JOKED as a dialogue tag. The most common (and best) form of dialogue tag is said. In addition to showing the reader who is speaking, dialogue tags also tell the reader how the words are spoken. So, 'Hi' is the dialogue and 'said John' is the dialogue tag. We can see that 'said john' is an example of the use of a dialogue tag. Here the dialogue (in this case HI) is being attributed to John. "Hi," said John as he stretched out his hand. If we look at the first line of our example, we see the following: It is how the reader knows who is speaking and when you are writing dialogue. This article is about how you can write great dialogue, but let’s start with something very simple that trips up a lot of writers.Īttribution, or dialogue tags, is basically showing the reader which of your characters is speaking, an ID.
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