Tag Archives: dialog

First person, part the first

January 25, 2010 – 2:00 pm

As I’ve said before, the term “viewpoint” gets used to mean both the person who is seeing the action (viewpoint character) and the way in which everything is written (viewpoint type). This is going to be about the latter sort of viewpoint. Specifically, it’s about first-person.
First-person viewpoint is the “I” viewpoint: “I hate pickled beets. [...]

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He said, she said

December 3, 2009 – 12:07 pm

A speech tag is the thing that goes with a line of dialog that tells you who said it; it “tags” the line with the name (or occupation, or some other identifiable description) of the person who said it.
“Run!” Jeff cried.  (”Jeff cried” is the speech tag.)
Jane said, “I can’t.” (”Jane said” is the speech [...]

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