It is likely that someone, somewhere has depicted a conversation as,
He goes, "Derp. Derp. Derp." and then she goes, "Yup. Yup. Yup." and then we go, "Hoooeeeey!"

Excuse me. I now have to go break my fingers for typing that.

That's dreadful. Stick to "said".

However, I will use adverbs with 'said' when needed.

She resonded.

Have just started my first effort at writing a book, and so this is a timely help.

In case I'm discussing forgotten history, Tom Swift was a fictional boy inventor from my Dad's youth. I have a few of his books, and read them when I was young. The author wrote dialog and usually used adverbs to describe how the person was speaking. For almost every line of dialog. A year or so after I read them, someone came up with the idea of Tom Swifties. a gag where you made up a line of dialog and then used an adverb that made the whole thing funny.
For example:
"I dropped a desk on my foot," Tom said woodenly. (i just made that up)
Back then, I made up this one:
"I lost my toothpaste," Tom said crestfallenly.

Maybe between using alternate words for said, and the humorous context, we can make up a whole new use of humor (she expostulated wildly) lol

I bookmarked the link. Thank you.

Used the word - ejaculated - a lot. I'm rereading her body of work this year - and she used it a great deal through the mid 1950's