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Revisions — Dialogue

During the comments discussion on my last Revisions post, we touched briefly on the fact that the rules of dialogue are completely different than the rules of prose.  This little statement means that revision strategies are also necessarily different.  Clear and concise will not apply, for example, to a character who is ambiguous and verbose.  [...]

He said, she said: thoughts on dialogue.

[Note: Since I don’t think this was formally announced, I should say that as part of the recent personnel shuffle here at Magical Words, Stuart and I will be doubling our offerings, each of us posting on alternate Fridays.]

In keeping with our recent series of posts on writing mechanics I thought I’d offer a few [...]

My Two Cents

It is the day before Thanksgiving. The world is settling in, thinking about turkey and ham and sweet potato casserole and dressing and all the other fixins. I am grateful about many things. But I’m also stubborn and contrary and difficult, and I detest Thanksgiving because of my distended family and the obligations, stress, and [...]