one thing i would consider myself good at in writing is to structure dialogue. i'll just give an example from my current project and then afterwards give my reasoning for how i write.

      ’’You do realize why we have to wear this armor, don’t you?'' Father said. ’’This chainmail around our arms.’’ He questioned. ^1

      ’’I’m dangerous.’’ Cùdhuine answered. His feet had become rather interesting to look at. ’’we can’t have even a minor mistake.’’ He repeated as had been said to him so often. ^2

      ’’Look me in the eyes, Cùdhuine.’’ The boy looked up from his feet. ’’You are dangerous if you don’t know how to contain yourself. You can’t let anger take control over you.’’

      ’’I try to keep it inside but I can’t. Tears appeared in his gray eyes. ’’I- I ge-,’’ ^3 He stuttered, ’’I get angry and it’s like I can’t choose.’’

      ’’You’re not an animal.’’ Father raised his voice. The boy looked back at the floor again to avoid his fathers stare. There was a moment of quiet and father cleared his throat. ^3.5 ^4

      ’’Come on boy, stand up.’’ Father said. Cùdhuine stood up and walked over to the shackles on the wall. 

⁵ ’’remember, once you’re 12 we can go outside. Hormlir will take you to see the markets and the people.’’ Father said. ’’Until then we will continue working on this problem of yours.’’

When the shackles were around Cùdhuine’s wrists, with just enough leeway, father took a step back.

      ’’Will the people be afraid of me?’’ The boy asked.

      ’’Not if they don’t know.’’ ^6

1: the quotation marks are around the things that the characters say. the things that actually exit heir mouth. note that every bit of dialogue starts at a new paragraph unless it's the same person talking.

2: the character says 2 sentences with a pause in the middle, which is where i have placed the 'Cùdhuine answered' and also the action he performs so that the reader know who is talking and what they are doing. also note that i say who is talking (in this case Cùdhuine) and then later in the sentence i refer to him as just 'he' since the reader already have the context.

3: when the character stutters i use a ' - ' to signify his speech being cut off. incase this wasn't obvious to the reader i also put a 'he stuttered' after it.

3.5 i say that the character clears his throat because having a 'cough cough' in dialogue would be awkward.

4: previously i have divided the speech of a character and then put their actions and movements in that divide, but in this case there is so much movement and things happening so that i make a new paragraph despite it being the same character speaking.

5: here i again start a new paragraph, not because there so so much things happening but because i imagine there being a long pause between these lines.

6: here i don't point out who is talking or how they are saying it because the reader have context of the people in the situation.

Note: i start every new bit of dialogue with a few spaces before it, which makes the page looks neater and helps the reader in understanding what is dialogue and what is not.