Guidelines for Writing Dialogue

1.) Dialogue should sound like real speech.
2.) Identify the speaker and how he speaks by using speaker tags.
3.) Set off the speaker’s words with quotation marks.
4.) Begin a new paragraph each time the speaker changes.
5.) The first words of quotations are capitalized.
6.) End marks are usually placed inside quotation marks.

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