Refresh your dialogue punctuation skills

In this 20-minute course, I show fiction writers and editors how to punctuate dialogue in a novel according to publishing-industry convention. Want to access the guidance in written form? Click on the button below to download the complementary booklet.

Watch the video tutorials

HOW TO PUNCTUATE DIALOGUE: BROKEN-UP SPEECH
HOW TO PUNCTUATE ​ DIALOGUE: TAGGED SPEECH
HOW TO PUNCTUATE ​DIALOGUE: VOCATIVES (DIRECT ADDRESS)
HOW TO PUNCTUATE ​DIALOGUE: FALTERING SPEECH
HOW TO PUNCTUATE ​DIALOGUE: INTERRUPTIONS
HOW TO PUNCTUATE ​ DIALOGUE: PAUSES AND TRAIL-OFFS
HOW TO PUNCTUATE DIALOGUE: INDICATING SPEECH
AUDIENCE
Independent authors and fiction editors
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RUNNING TIME
​20 minutes
FICTION-EDITING BOOKS AND GUIDES