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Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Guilty as charged on some of these. Thanks for sharing, Chris—very valuable!
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Welcome Leigh 👍😃
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Reblogged this on theowlladyblog.
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Excellent advice! Thank you.
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That’s great, Chris. Thanks. 🙂
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That was well said. 🙂
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My sister used to be able to belch entire sentences. In such a case, could I use “belched” instead of “said”? I’d love to hear–but not smell–someone fart, “But I’m afraid it has given me gas.”
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Another great article. Thank you for posting. Re-blogged it to twitter, LinkedIn, pinterest, Facebook
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Reblogged this on FutureImperfect and commented:
USE THIS TO GET RID OF BAD WRITING FUTURISTS. AND I MEAN IT!
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While this is great and I may reblog I have to say that I started out as a news reporter and was instructed to just use said because it was a silent verb and didn’t convey any opinion so I usually stick to that. There are times when I will use a really really active verb : screamed but that’s only on rare occassion. Simplest is always best.
Patti.
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Agreed 😀
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Reblogged this on TheKingsKidChronicles and commented:
Excellent post on dialogue tags to avoid. I needed this one. Thanks, Chris.
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Very welcome Aleta 😀
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