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Either you're writing a prose piece or you're writing a screenplay. Don't do both. If you're doing some advanced stuff with formatting trying to represent different kinds of media (radio transcri...
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_Either_ you're writing a prose piece _or_ you're writing a screenplay. Don't do both. If you're doing some advanced stuff with formatting trying to represent different kinds of media (radio transcripts, chat logs), you might be able to have speaker tags the way you do above, but not ploppped down in the middle of a regular paragraph.