Formatting Dialogue Breaks

by T. J. Alex

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The rules have changed over the years on how writers should handle Dialogue broken by Direction paragraphs. In this section, we'll look at how such Dialogue breaks USED TO be handled vs. how they are handled today, as well as how to format Dialogue that breaks at the bottom of the page.

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The rules have changed over the years on how writers should handle Dialogue broken by Direction paragraphs. In this section, we'll look at how such Dialogue breaks USED TO be handled vs. how they are handled today, as well as how to format Dialogue that breaks at the bottom of the page.

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