I keep the audiobooks in mind for all the stuff I write now, which is why, for example, the dialog tag "he/she said" is far less frequent in my work now than it was in my earlier work. Your brain can skip the tag when you read but the narrator has to say every single one, and they pile up.
Do you ever write with the audiobook in mind? Some books just don't work when read aloud.
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Did you realize that on your own or did someone point it out to you?
That's exactly what I want when I spend that credit.
From a reading aloud perspective, I wish that there were alternative ways to mark dialogue, so you would know who was speaking. Sometimes I reread the sentence because I used the wrong voice.
Non-fiction, no problem. But fiction is hard and this is one of the reasons!
Less dialogue attribution text is best for smooth reading or narrating of dialogue, imho
There are tricks that a writer can use to make it clearer who is speaking, but I still like a liberal sprinkling of attributed dialogue in a conversation so I don't lose track.
Thanks for making me think. I appreciate it.
So if you leave them out, make sure it's obvious somehow who's speaking.