/lit/ - Literature

>>23346541
This conversation again... I'd be open to discussing it, but never goes anywhere beyond "muh invisible word".
But in summary, to me speechcraft is all about delivery, in written format it's hard to evoke the intended tone if you constrain yourself to"said", as it tells nothing about the delivery, and readers just left to interpret the tone based on the dialogue itself. And you can argue "yaah, the that's the point, the reader imagines how it was delivered" and that's all good, but I want to be implicit and less round about the tone with a more diverse range of dialogue verb. Maybe I should tone it down, but I do hold disdain for said; to me it's not an "invisible word" but a lost opportunity.
So many awful works I come across are just: Alice said X, Bob said X, repats, and it comes off as monotone, because the author could not be bothered to pack any emotion and the dialogue itself without any spice.

Either way, thank you for taking a look at my story, probably the highlight of my miserable day.