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What goes in a speaker tag? Do you even need one? What type of actions should you mention while that person is talking? How do you format the paragraphs of dialogue correctly?
Writing dialogue can be fun, but the character's words can't be the only thing on the page. (Unless you're writing a script or using only dialogue as a stylistic choice, that's another issue.) In most fiction novels, there tends to be a lot of dialogue. It's what drives the story forward and largely what gives the character's their personality. But once you have good dialogue, what do you do in the surrounding space? Where do you go from there?
So you're in a critique group and excited to get started. But, before you begin, make sure you don't get so caught up that you forget some general unspoken rules of critique group. To help you with that, I have gathered 10 dos and don'ts of critique groups:
Depending on the size of your critique group, you will be reading and critiquing someone else's writing anywhere between 65% to 95% of the time. In other words, you are mostly giving feedback to others, not getting it yourself. So why should you care? Is this really helpful to your own writing? The answer is that you should care because yes, critiquing others really does help you grow in your own writing.
I have been in writing critique groups for about four years now, and I have never once regretted it. I love them. There is nothing more exillerating then having one of your friends read a piece of your writing for the first time or finally getting to read a new piece that you have been begging your friend to write for ages.
This will be a series of blog posts addressing the benifits of being part of a critique group. Today, I will be specifically discussing the benifit of having the rest of the members of the group reading your writing. The lights from the house faded as Parker ran deeper into the trees. His breath was labored. His legs pumped beneath him, propelling him forward, more and more every second. He could barely see where he was going, but that didn’t matter. His feet knew the way. How many times had he prepared for this day? More than he could count.
Would it be enough? A few days ago, I had the opportunity to re-watch the new movie, Wonder Woman. Apart from it simply being an enjoyable movie, Wonder Woman has all the things a good movie should. It has three dimensional characters, a good character arc for the main character, and a plot twist that you don’t see coming.
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