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e-griff

Fun story.
Just as a note – Wise advice advises against substitutes for ‘said’ (moaned Fred, responded jack) as they are distracting and superfluous (eg the speech says something and then it is repeated in the description eg ‘what’s that?’ he questioned. It’s better to use said throughout, but if you have a dialogue between characters, very often you can leave the speech attribution out and just ping pong their words on each line
This sharpens up dialogue.
The more superfluous words a reader has to plough through, the more bored they get.

franciman

I think if you wrote it like a stage sketch ( a duologue if you will) you could get by with attributing speech to characters. That would help with the attribution repeats. I enjoyed this, though John is right. I also think you are using the attributions to make your job easy as the writer. Crisper, more meaningful dialogue would preclude the use of adjectival attributes. e.g. irritably; finally.
That said, I did enjoy it and would read more.

e-griff

If you’d like to see some more tips, there’s a selection in the forum, here:
https://ukauthors.com/community/prose-writing-tutorial/prose-writing-tutorial/

mikeverdi

Much enjoyed the read, enough has been said on the critique side, I’ll leave it there.
Mike

skytrucker

That was funny Pixie. I loved it. I must read some more of your output.