tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521332226865132019.post3771457274433737807..comments2022-12-13T04:30:07.375-08:00Comments on Academic Desk: Creative Writing--Editing Exercise: Pruning Dialogue Tags and AdverbsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521332226865132019.post-16766425102757199632009-12-07T16:05:47.613-08:002009-12-07T16:05:47.613-08:00Joanna,
Over the years, Writer's Digest has p...Joanna,<br /><br />Over the years, <em>Writer's Digest</em> has published several articles on the says/said issue in dialogue, for example, Nancy Kress's "Who Said That?" (online, accessed in 2005) and Brent Spencer's "10 Dialogue Dos and Don'ts" (February 1998).<br /><br />Also, if you do a survey of the great modern literature (not necessarily best sellers or mass market paperbacks), you will see a trend of the understated dialogue tag--and almost always the established writers use said/said or asked/asks.<br /><br />In short, the dialogue tag is simply a tool to show who said what, not to make a literary statement. The minimalist dialogue tag rules!<br /><br />Good luck on your research!<br /><br />Ms SiegelJenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02948542374699674802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521332226865132019.post-17537531480722665242009-12-07T10:59:59.119-08:002009-12-07T10:59:59.119-08:00Dear Ms Siegel.
My name is Joanna Plonka and I am ...Dear Ms Siegel.<br />My name is Joanna Plonka and I am a student of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw. I am currently working on a Masters Thesis about different stylistic approaches to dialogue tags in English and Polish and the way literary translators deal with them.<br />I would highly appreciate if You could recommend me any authorized source that I could quote, which states that "said"(asked) is the best verb to use in English creative fiction? Everybody seems to know it for a fact, but I can not find any reliable source that I could quote in my paper.<br />I would be grateful for any help in that matter.<br />Best regards,<br />Joanna Plonka<br /><br />Please respond to:<br />joanna_plonka@wp.plJoanna Plonkanoreply@blogger.com