1. What kind of words will your protagonist use?
Journal – “Dialogue”
Put your protagonist in a conversation with another character. Begin with a couple sentences explaining where your character is and whom he or she is speaking to. Choose a couple of your personality traits. How can you show these traits in the conversation.
What kind of words will your protagonist use?
How will the narrator voice help you reveal your character and communicate tone and mood?

2. Be The Author - Dialogue
Identify your areas of narration. (All the parts NOT in quotation marks!) In what ways does your narration reveal your character’s personality?
How does your character’s word choice reveal his/her personality?
Underline a simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification. How does this figurative language reveal your character?
How has your narration shown the body language, internal thinking, and personality of your character?
What do you want you audience to observe/wonder about/think about your character? Where have built this into your dialogue?

3. Use a comma to set off your TAGS. COMMAS GO INSIDE CLOSING QUOTES!
Commas with Quotations
Use a comma to set off your TAGS.
COMMAS GO INSIDE CLOSING QUOTES!
“I have something important to tell you,” he whispered.
He whispered, “I have something important to tell you.”

4. 2. If your quote is a question or an exclamation, place the mark
Question Marks and Exclamation Marks with Quotations
2. If your quote is a question or an exclamation, place the mark
INSIDE CLOSING QUOTES!
“My pants are on fire!” she screamed.
She screamed, “My pants are on fire!”
“Do I smell funny?” he asked.
He asked, “Do I smell funny?”