The most common way to indicate a new speaker’s dialogue is to start a new paragraph.<\/p>\n
Here is an example from my novel Touched<\/em>:<\/p>\n Rashan slouched into a nearby folding chair, not bothering to get one for Georgia. He moved a few braids from his forehead, but they fell back over his eyes. After a silence, Georgia, still standing, took the conversational lead. \u201cSo you\u2019re a basketball player?\u201d Different speakers’ words may be written in a single paragraph to save space as long as the change of speakers is clear by prompts to the reader such as Rashan laughed<\/em>.<\/p>\n Single words such as yes, no, where, how,<\/em> and why<\/em> are not enclosed in quotation marks unless used in direct dialogue.<\/p>\n Examples:<\/strong> With thoughts and imagined dialogue that are unspoken, you may enclose the interior discourse in quotation marks or not. The most common way to indicate a new speaker’s dialogue is to start a new paragraph. Here is an example from my novel Touched: Rashan slouched into a nearby folding chair, not bothering to get one for Georgia. He moved a few braids from his forehead, but they fell back over his eyes. After a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-effective-writing"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5150,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cVarsity. Point guard.\u201d
\n\u201cGreat.\u201d
\n\u201cDo you know what a point guard is?\u201d
\n\u201cNot exactly but it sounds important.\u201d
\nRashan laughed. \u201cIt is. Hey, you wanna dance?\u201d<\/p>\n
\nShe said yes when he asked her to marry him.<\/em>
\nWhen Howard asked Mary to marry him, she shouted, “Yes!”<\/em><\/p>\n
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\nExamples:<\/strong>
\n\u201cIf he asks for chocolate ice cream one more time,\u201d Benny\u2019s mother thought, \u201cI\u2019ll scream.”<\/em>
\nIf he asks for chocolate ice cream one more time, Benny\u2019s mother thought, I\u2019ll scream.<\/em>
\n\u201cWhy,\u201d she wondered, \u201cdid I worry about the test so much?\u201d
\nWhy, she wondered, did I worry about the test so much?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"