Lesson overview

Introduction
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
narrative
dialogue
dialog
punctuation
mixing speech with action
Fracaswell Hyman
Mango Delight
In most narratives, characters will want to talk to each other. And often, they will do other things while they are talking. In this activity we look at how we can blend dialogue with action to create more interesting scenes. We use a snippet from Fracaswell Hyman's Mango Delight as a model.