Freed From Behind The Paywall: Let's Talk About Dialogue

Easy to do, hard to do well. From May 2022.

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Dialogue – at least bad dialogue -  is easy to do, and a lot of writers fill their first draft with dialogue just to stuff some pages full of words.

But it is very hard to do well. And it is one of the very hardest things to teach because it is so subtle.  It is like teaching music. But the only instrument is your ear…