Are we all singing Edwin Starr’s “War”? I know I am. But dialogue IS good for something. It’s good for a lot of somethings, or it should be. If dialog doesn’t fulfill at least two of these purposes, it’s just yak-yak and it needs to…
Category: Writing
There’s a certain amount of disagreement about the use of dialogue tags. Here’s what I think about ’em. What I think about ’em today, that is. To begin with, people speak through gestures, facial expression, body language. The non-verbal element supplies movement, injects variety into…
Fellow author T. Lee Harris and I attended Context science fiction convention this past weekend. As I said, her house-mate, Dale Yocum, drove us in his Volvo. The only thing cooler than riding in a Volvo would have been riding in his previous car, which…