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I like what you did there. Looking at the painting made it clear in the relevant paragraph that "he" was speaking. I'm a big fan of this approach myself. A whole bunch of "he said", "she said" loo...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T07:11:15Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/30932 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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2019-12-08T07:11:15Z (almost 5 years ago)
I like what you did there. Looking at the painting made it clear in the relevant paragraph that "he" was speaking. I'm a big fan of this approach myself. A whole bunch of "he said", "she said" looks excessive quite soon, and trawling for different ways of saying "said" can look contrived and possibly comical - Conan Doyle and Rice Burroughs were buggers for this (eg. ' "Holmes!" Watson ejaculated, '). Apologies for the image.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2017-10-20T07:36:38Z (about 7 years ago)
Original score: 0