Dialogue in fiction consists of so much more than “they said, she said, he said.” In this session you’ll learn to handle the mechanics of many types of dialogue in order to maintain each character’s voice while keeping the dialogue understandable for the reader and letting the story shine through. Topics covered are dialogue tags, verbs of utterance, and action beats; punctuating dialogue; formatting unspoken dialogue (direct thought, indirect thought, imagined or remembered dialogue, telepathic communication); informal dialogue (dialect, slang, and offensive language); sounds and other nonverbal expressions; non-English language and translated dialogue; and electronic communication.