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Concrete Dreamland
Cleared for Takeoff
A Girl Walks Out of a Bar
The Grey Bird of Baghdad
Employee Number Four
The Housekeeper's Secret
The Paladin Prophecy
Underwater Daughter
The Big Stretch
Restrung
Don't Let Me Down
The Forger of Marseille
Hello Goodbye
Silent Agreements
Cake Walk
But You Look So Normal
Sky Ranch
26 Seconds
Agates are Forever
Concrete Dreamland
Cleared for Takeoff
A Girl Walks Out of a Bar
The Grey Bird of Baghdad
Employee Number Four
The Housekeeper's Secret
The Paladin Prophecy
Underwater Daughter
The Big Stretch
Restrung
Don't Let Me Down
The Forger of Marseille
Hello Goodbye
Silent Agreements
Cake Walk
But You Look So Normal
Sky Ranch
26 Seconds
Agates are Forever
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Crafting memoir with Jodi Fodor
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Dialogue tip: Lose the tags and substitute action
When you read the dialogue exchange in the screenshot, do you find so many instances of “said” intrusive? I do. And in audiobook form, repetitive dialogue tags are REALLY intrusive. You’ve probably read or been told that “said” is a perfectly good dialogue tag and a much better choice than littering dialogue with vivid tags, like “he exclaimed,” “he whined,” “she yelled,” “she quipped.” That’s true. “Said” is a better choice because it doesn’t call attention to itself as the
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