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Never open with dialogue?

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NOTE: There will be no post next week because I’ll be out of town in Las Vegas doing a couple of booksignings with my “Mosaic” co-author Chris Keaton. If any of you live in the Las Vegas area, stop by

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Writing great dialog–Part 6: dialog tag abuse

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From Rick: I know, I know. I’m doing dialog posts with astonishing slowness even for me, but I’ll get to the end of them one of these weeks… or months… or years. This particular post in the series began with

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Writing great dialog–Part 5: dialog basics

06/09/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 384 Views 0 Comments crafting good dialog, dialog basics, fiction writing, good writing techniques, rick taubold, writing good dialog

From Rick: It’s been over a year since I wrote Part 4 of this series. You can see and read parts 1-4 simply by clicking on DIALOG in the categories on the left of the blog. In this installment, I

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Writing great dialog–Part 4: proper dialog formatting

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From Rick: In this post, I’m going to cover formatting dialog, which some new writers get wrong. For purposes of this blog, I’ll assume the American English style of formatting, that is, double quote marks, where British English may use

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Writing great dialog–Part 2

04/15/201309/24/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 377 Views 0 Comments crafting good dialog, dialog, dialog basics, fiction writing, good writing, good writing techniques, novel writing, rick taubold, show don't tell, writing good dialog

From Rick: In this part, I’m going discuss defining character with dialog. Many new authors don’t grasp this starting out, and they end up having all their characters talk alike. We’ve all read novels where it was difficult to keep

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Writing great dialog–Part 1

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From Rick: As I mentioned in last week’s brief post, Scott and I lately have been quite busy. So, for a while, we’re going to reduce the length of our blog posts, dividing them into multiple posts when necessary, to