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I know you can add dialogue to the same paragraph as an action to show who's talking, but what happens when a character is making a speech and it's broken up by actions (hand movements, looking at ...
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System
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2019-12-08T04:28:54Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Mack
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2019-12-08T04:28:54Z (almost 5 years ago)
I know you can add dialogue to the same paragraph as an action to show who's talking, but what happens when a character is making a speech and it's broken up by actions (hand movements, looking at other characters, etc)? - Do I start a new paragraph for each action he does, even though he just continues talking? - Do I start a new paragraph when he resumes talking? For example, if I have two paragraphs of text, and between them is a sentence of an action, where precisely do I use paragraph breaks? If I get rid of all the paragraph breaks, it just turns into a wall of text, but without them, I'm worried it will look needlessly broken up and chaotic.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2015-07-19T18:05:49Z (over 9 years ago)
Original score: 3