Grammargeddon Angel on Nostr: If you open a paragraph with a short action beat followed by quoted speech, you don't ...

If you open a paragraph with a short action beat followed by quoted speech, you don't need a dialogue tag after that speech. We already know who's talking.

She tapped the table with her pencil. "Let's talk about that, shall we?" (We don't need "she said" here. She tapped the table to get our attention as readers as well as that of her fictional audience.)

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