What can you say instead of "said" in the book?

Let the speeches go. Well, not always, but mostly. Grade in a dialogue becomes otherwise very clobular, and disturbs the reading flow. It’s only right if you’re still using some abstructed alternatives for ‘say’. Or do you think this is good?

“Hey, how are you?” asked A.
“Well, and you?” B replied.
“Also,” A answered and added, “Do you have any plans tonight?”
B explained, “Yes, I meet my friend.”
“As now, you’re still with him,” A cried.
B prints: “Yes, maybe”
A asked, “But you have separated yourself?”
B whispered: “No, I lied”

No, that’s not good. It’s fierce, you’re constantly being dragged out of the situation, and the speeches with explaining verbs to the soundfall don’t need to be built if you can build reasonable sentences that even reproduce the sound.

Let go of idioms, perhaps add to an act, and everything is much more fluid and more alive. Something like that…

“Hey, how are you?” A gave B her personal handshake
“Well, and you?” B grinned his best friend.
“So, do you have something tonight?”
“Yes, I’m meeting my friend.”
A ripped eyes. “How are you still with him?”
“Yes, maybe.” B looked down.
“But you have separated yourself?”
B shook his head. I lied.

It is only important to start a new line after each person speaking, and to remember who speaks at once. Then you understand everything, and you don’t sound like a primary school child who gets bonus points when it knows as many different words as possible.