Yeah, I didn't know where to post this, but my Creative Writing class brainstormed some alternatives to the word 'said'. When you're RPing, the whole he said, she said shtick can get pretty repetitive, so here they are. :)

added
admitted
admonish
advised
agreed
announced
answered
argued
asked
asserted
assured
averred
babbled
barked
bawled
began
bellowed
bit out
blurted
boasted
breathed
brooded
cajoled
called
cautioned
chanted
chided
claimed
commented
confessed
cooed
cried
crooned
decided
declared
droned
exclaimed
explained
fibbed
gasped
giggled
glowered
grated
grieved
grimaced
groaned
growled
grumbled
grunted
hinted
hissed
hollered
informed
interjected
interrupted
jeered
joked
lamented
lashed out
laughed
leered
lied
lilted
meowed
mimicked
moaned
mocked
mumbled
murmured
mused
muttered
opened
opined
panicked
preached
proclaimed
pushed
queried
questioned
rambled
ranted
rebuked
remarked
replied
responded
retorted
roared
sang
scolded
screamed
screeched
shouted
shrieked
sighed
slipped
smirked
snapped
snarled
snickered
sniffed
sniffled
snorted
squeaked
squealed
stammered
stated
stuttered
teased
thought
threw out
told
translated
voiced
wheedled
whined
whispered
wondered
yelled
yelped
yowled



Woot, it's even alphabetized. Sorry it's so long, but I hope it helps, even just a little bit. Um, and feel free to add!

sniffed? as in 'sniffed haughtily'? You've pretty much got everything covered!

admonish
chanted
screech
cautioned
Lied
Fibbed

and a personal favorite, opined

I added them! ^_^

Tehe! Coolio ^^ Here's s'more. (Mostly from my vocab book)

abetted (sp?)
absolved
admired
apoligized
assigned
avered
begged
berated
boomed
brusqued
commiserated
commanded
compared
concocted
contrived
corroborated
criticized
debated
disavowed
echoed
equivocated
gossiped
flouted
idolized
impugned
interrogated
inveighed
manipulated
mitigated
negotiated
ordered
opposed
paraphrased
prated
pried
recapitulated
relegated
remonstrated
reproved
requested
spoiled
supplicated

Eep. I went overboard. =\

lol, i'll try to use recapitulated sometime :lol:

Yeah, said can get very old, but if you use those words too exclusively, your writing will sound unatural.

TO many words..... hurting head....

*falls to floor*

Must not think....

Hahha, awesome. Yeah, you're right. But a change is good sometimes. :D

Here's a couple more: (If I repeated any sorry.)

accounted
a few words of wisdom
articulated
bawled
bewailed
bickered
blubbered
blustered
clamored
deemed
estimated
expressed
forewarning
fussed
hailed
mourned
pronounced
putative
reckoned
recounted
regarded
reported
sobbed
sonant
squalled
uttered
vocalized
wailed
word to the wise

:)

:lol: Thanks!

aaaaaaaaah! fun! :P

Are you serious?

Knowing Livia, I think she's serious. At least, I hope that's what you're talking about.

Said's an invisible word. Don't over use it and don't under use it and don't forget that you gan close off the qoutes with an action or just close off qoutes.

Beautiful, Kit.

Actually, I've had someone complain that I was doing that too much- closing off quotes without actually saying who said it - on a diff RP. I couldn't figure out if the problem was with her or me - admittedly I was using several diff characters at one time, but they had such defined personalities, you knew if there was someone complaining there was a 99.9% chance it was Tomas, and so on...

I guess that doesn't happen much here, where you have a diff account for each char. I kinda miss making random ones up, though.

Yeah, I usually just mix all of it up.

what about 'grinned'? I use that a lot.

That is alot of words...LOL.

oh! drawled.