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I've been reading quite a few books on writing techniques...

And the FDO is spot on with what the general consensus is out there... for both writers and editors...  Lets the dialogue carry the emotion, not the attribution...  

They all say that the he said / she said drops out of our conscious absorbsion and  we don't even notice it, but put too many strange attributions such as He hissed, or she spat, and that draws our attention away from the actual dialogue, making us mentally pause during the reading and affecting the flow of a scene.  It's a tough thing to do.  That's where editors come in really handy...  

 Definate No-No's...   He sighed, She hissed, He chuckled...   Let's see you try to hiss a complete sentence...  or spit one...

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