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How to Write Better Dialogue Without Making Every Character Sound the Same

Good dialogue is not realistic speech copied onto the page. It is speech with the dead air removed.

A writer working on dialogue in a novel manuscript

Dialogue is one of the quickest ways for a reader to decide whether a character feels alive.

Dialogue needs a job

Every exchange should reveal something, change something or increase pressure.

If a conversation can disappear without affecting the scene, it probably has not earned its place yet.

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