Comments on Profile Post by Gandire Alea

It was fun to read in present tense. I usually read in past. It was good tho

All my writing is like that~

Oh. You have more?

Random stories here and there, yes~

>.< that’s nice. I wish I could write stories.

You come up with characters, have them interact, and see what happens??

I mean writing in general: my writing style is awkward and I can’t really come up with more dialogue tags

Dialogue tags?? Just have them talk to each other about what ever the issue is they need to talk about. It smoothens out over time, but for the author, how they talk will probably always feel awkward

Yeah. Said, cried, replied, asked, questioned, laughed. You know. And also I can’t seem to make their movements natural. When I reread, I always cringe

Oh, those. Usually, the current trend among actual authors is to just use said/says and let the descriptions and words show how they are saying. Tears ran down her face. Her voice cracked as she said, “D- don’t!”

Plenty of people here disagree with me on that, but I will stick to that method. In regards to movements, only describe one or two if they are relevent to what is happening or to the character’s personality??

Yes that works but what I cringe a lot about is when authors do this. She said in an angry tone, “How dare you!”
I don’t like them using tone or something like that to do it. They could’ve use she said angrily, “How dare you!” It’s works much easier.

That seems more like the author trying to use “said” while avoiding “ly” words. The best solution there would be for the author to use movement to show she’s angry, like jabbing the other in the chest or smashing their glass of wine into the floor.

That solution can be tiring t do every single time, so some authors settle for the cringy compromise.

Yep. Using “ly” all the time doesn’t work either cause it also hurts reading said so many times

The idea with using “said” is that readers will gloss over the word “said” and go straight to the dialoge.

Ya. But if I read it too often in a book. I don’t like it and start to cringe every time the word said is said.they have to use a decent amount of others too

I just avoid using it all together when I can~

Well every author has their own style and so does the reader (๑>ᴗ<๑)

Although, in that case, I get the feeling my professor would say, “If you notice the word said being used, then the author is doing a bad job keeping you immersed in the story.”

Haha lol. To me it’s okay as long as it isn’t used so much