Editing2026-10-17

Dialogue tag cleanup: 'said' versus action beats

When to use it

Every line comes with 'he shouted' or 'she said, laughing'.

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Manuscript{{manuscript}}

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Clean up the dialogue tags in the manuscript below.
Rules:
- Where the speaker is obvious (two-person exchange), drop the tag.
- Where a tag is needed, use either 'said' or one action beat. Drop 'shouted / whispered / muttered' when the line itself shows the tone.
- Tags that fuse a line with a simultaneous action ('she said, laughing') split into a separate sentence before or after the line.
- Delete adverb tags ('said coldly').
- At most one action beat per three lines of dialogue.
Output the whole text, then [tags n → m].

[Manuscript]
[Manuscript]

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Revise the result into your manuscript
The output is a draft. Follow the tips and rewrite half of it by hand.

How to get the most from it

Korean prose rarely needs even 'said'; line breaks and quotation marks identify speakers.
Use action beats only when they show what changes, not just who speaks. Pure speaker-identification beats go.

Use it in the studio with your story bible

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