How to Format Dialogue

Learn how to correctly format dialogue for your short story.

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[Evie_vi]

Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever actually been taught all the rules of punctuation with dialogue. I’m writing a narrative essay rn, this was super helpful. Thanks!

[zsokstg]

My teacher force me to watch this even thought i know how to do it.

[ArtemHahauz-nmbk]

You managed to clarify all the basic information in one short video; thank you so much!
I highly appreciate this marvelous video. I wish I had watched it before trying to write incorrectly-punctuated dialogues!
Best regards from Ukraine!

[griffin]

Thank you, I initially came for the indentation part, but learned a lot from the understanding of why we format it the way we do on the first few parts.

[mazzyfriebel]

Thanks for helping, this will help me with my short story assignment in school!

[Me_encanta_la_ligma]

Helped me better than my English teacher

[skybloxybacon]

My teacher forced me to watch this even though I already knew it.But u explain better than my teacher 😂

[Doomslayerever]

thank you




you explain it better than my teachers!!!

[hugoagudelo]

It´s been a helpful video: plain and well conducted. Thank you.

[Space_Writer]

It's so frustrating because the dialogue is so easy to hear in my mind, but when I put it in written form I have trouble keeping the format. This is especially when I have long stretches of dialogue between characters.
All the "he said", "she said", "he replied", and "she muttered" starts to feel laborsome.

[Nevets_Gnahz]

Thx for helping even though i was forced to do this

[nazmulislamsumon]

Great vedio to understand easily, Thanks a lot.

[FPChris]

Helpful. Thanks. The quotes are missing in your last sentence…dogs!”

[HRRecords-wvxg]

really helpfull but you have to add a comma in between the quotation marks