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Let's Talk About Dialogue
[REMINDER: John Lewis Writing Grants now OPEN (deadline: Oct. 1, 2022)] For a long time, I thought I was terrible at writing dialogue. I’m not terrible at talking, or listening (usually), but conveying on a page how people speak, with their subtexts, their physical quirks (how…
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I’ve spent the last two weeks doing almost nothing but reading novels, and I’ve noticed something about well-written literary fiction. It’s the characters who bring me back to the page every time, more than gorgeous sentences, and maybe more than plot, too. I’m eager to return to…
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