All Comments on 'How To Make Characters Talk in Your Stories'

Rule 8 review is wrong isn’t it? Shouldn’t it be double return, not double indent?

AWESOME - THANKS. Really great well laid out info. Obviously a professional educator.

Wow that was Not Only Fun But and Most Importantly that was Super Educational. I Actually Felt like I have Relearned Constricting Dialogs that I've Learned from Way Back in The First Grade but also I felt that I Not Only relearned all of that but also I also felt like I have Learned a bit more because I don't remember my Grade One Teacher ever going this Extensive, in teaching me all about Dialogs. I Fact I don't think I remember ever learning Dialog Construction to this Extent. And on another Note I Wished all Authors Doing 'How Tos' would be like this, It would be much help for me personally, and not only that it would also help in getting me to stick to their 'How Tos'

Thank you for this, I left Sshool unable to read much less write. I'm dyslexic, I've always said I was dyslexic before dyslexia was invented.

I was taught to read by a British Army education officer. He actually said to me when I met him again later in life he didn't teach me to read. He gave me the tools I needed to teach myself.

I have been writing the stories floating around in my strangely wired brain for years. But if I put them down for any time, when I picked them up again they made little or no sense at all. Even to me.

That was everything to do with a lack of punctuation. I didn't know how, I didn't know what, I just didn't know. You don't learn punctuation in the educational mill. But only if you can't read.

Thank you for this, I had to do the test 3 times to get 100% but I did.

Thank you.

Very, very helpful.

Thanks for the great article. I admit I was a bit reluctant to do too much dialogue in the stories I'm working on. I've changed my mind. And it's all because of your article. Thanks tons.

Very helpful guide, Thanks for your effort & time

Very Useful. It explains everything clearly. Now I hope to be able to write a story that will be acceptable for publishing.

Extremely helpful, especially for non-native speakers! Thank you very much!

Nicely done, I haven't looked at this sort of thing since..... Christ knows, my memory doesn't go that far back any more lol

Hi. Could you add a section explaining how to punctuate when one character is quoting another? Here's an example - Tony is telling Bonnie about a conversation he had earlier that day with Charley:

“Today she stopped and said, ‘You’re Tony, right? We’ve never met, I’m Charlene but everyone calls me Charley.’ Then she stuck out her hand and we shook before she said ‘Your session is 30 minutes, right?’

Thank you!

Thanks, fantastic tutorial, I am going to re-punctuate my rejected story, and see it I can get it accepted in one go.