When the name of the speaker is not mentioned in Dialogue writing, the dialogue should_______.
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Answer:
If you develop your characters well enough that even their speech patterns, choice of words, and sentence lengths are different from any other character’s in your story/novel, it will help.
Try to have the character doing some action while s/he speaks. But don’t overdo this.
Always remember that we need a separate paragraph for every character who speaks. Keep the dialogue and the action of each character in the same paragraph.
It’s fine to have no attributives in a scene between two people, but don’t carry this on for too long or the reader might get lost. There’s nothing wrong with throwing in the odd attributive (he said, she said).
In a brief scene with Sally and Joe moving into an apartment together, instead of saying something like this:
“Where do you want this box marked KITCHEN?” Joe asked.
“Where do you think it should go?” asked Sally.
“In the kitchen?”
“Yes.”
Write something like this:
Joe picked up the box marked KITCHEN. “Where do you want this one?”
Sally, hands on hips, looked at him with her head tilted.
“Duh, right? If it says KITCHEN, that’s where it goes?”
She smiled and threw him a kiss.
“Counter okay?” he asked.
“For now. Is that the last of them?”
“It is.”
“Good. Where’s the wine?”
Have fun with this.