This is kind of weird. I have a page full of dialog and dialog tags. No sentence is longer than the page width. That means every line is indented. The net appearance is that no lines are indented. Cosmetically, it looks very strange. If it was changed from double to single line spacing it would look even worse. Many of the lines fill the page width, leaving almost no white space.
Of course, the obvious solutions is to make a fair amount of dialog longer than one line, or add tags to do this. But it's a high tension scene with limited possibility for dialog tags (a ransom conversation on a telephone). I'm torn. Rewrite because it looks stupid and condensed on the page?
Not sure if this belongs in the grammar section, but I thought I'd give it a shot because it's just a mechanical issue.
Of course, the obvious solutions is to make a fair amount of dialog longer than one line, or add tags to do this. But it's a high tension scene with limited possibility for dialog tags (a ransom conversation on a telephone). I'm torn. Rewrite because it looks stupid and condensed on the page?
Not sure if this belongs in the grammar section, but I thought I'd give it a shot because it's just a mechanical issue.