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Flat or Sloppy Dialogue - How To Make Written Speech Dynamic

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Today we are going to talk about talking.

That is, the subject of dialogue - one of the trickiest-to-handle instruments in the writer’s toolbox.

Dialogue, like everything else in a novel, needs to be moving the story forward, or establishing character or illustrating conflict or doing something.

It's not just there to fi…