In this episode, members of the Dialogue Doctor Slack group come together to analyze the short story All Summer in a Day. They discuss big chorus scenes, using dialogue to convey emotion, and pulling a reader in through dialogue.

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In this episode, Faye Whyte returns to the podcast to talk through her series with Jeff. Together she and Jeff work through questions of character transformation over a three-book arch. Asking simple questions, together they brainstorm how the characters will interact change over the course of the story.

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In this special holiday edition of the podcast, Laura puts Jeff in the hot seat for the first time. 

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In this episode, Jeff sits down with author JM Bedard to look at a science fiction piece Jeannette wrote. They talk about strategically utilizing self-talk and nonverbal characters. They also discuss keeping all the characters engaged in a "big cast" scene and ensuring you know how your characters feel about each other.

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In this episode, Jeff and Laura talk about the "he said," "she said," "they said" (dialogue tags) that are the bane of an author's existence. They break down when to place them in a sentence and why, how to use them with different size casts, and why Laura wants authors to change it up a little.

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In this episode, Jeff sits down with middle-grade author Emmie B to look at a scene from a new series she is currently working on. Jeff and Emmie talk about changing points of view, choosing to be in a scene rather than summarize, and writing dialogue with three or more characters.

For more of Emmie B's work, check out her site at https://www.emmiebbooks.com/

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In this episode, Jeff and Laura and joined by a few attendees of their conference this weekend to talk about takeaways from the weekend. They discuss what they learned, Laura gives us a deeper breakdown on how to design a voice, and Jeff goes into what makes up a personality of a character.

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In this episode, Jeff and Laura get together with Dialogue Doctor gang members Tom Holbrook and Vincent Stanley to talk about the book Borrowed Time by Tracy Clark.

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In this episode, Jeff is joined by Laura Humm, Faye Whyte, and Tom Sullivant to build a character wheel for the Flannery O'Connor short story A Good Man is Hard to Find. They talk about how to build a character voice chart from a short story and how to use that chart to expand the short story into a novel.

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In this solo episode, Jeff talks about what deconstruction is and then applies it to story structure in hopes of helping authors move past difficult moments in writing. Jeff shares the journey he's been on with story structure, he breaks it down to its three basic components and then talks about scene construction. Jeff encourages writers to always ask the question, "How does this make the reader feel?"

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