Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

Episode 85 - Dialogue's three most important techniques.

11.03.2023 - By James ThayerPlay

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Listening to characters speak is a great pleasure for readers. It's as if the reader is a character in the scene, listening in, eavesdropping. Here are the three most important dialogue writing techniques I can think of. Also; how can we make our third-person narrator as intimate with the reader as a first-person narrator? Some thoughts are offered on how to get the reader close to the third-person character. And: Mark Twain's daily writing habits.Support the S...

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