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Writing dialogue is important. Unless you’re doing a novel on a mute Russian burlesque group, in which case, all the luck to you. For the rest of us, even if you have the best worldbuilding ideas or the hookiest of book hooks, unnatural dialogue will be enough to make someone put your book down. Dialogue must do three things: Sound like a real person Convey information quickly and naturally Tell us something about your character (ie dialogue has to sound different for each character) That’s a lot to ask of every line that comes out of your characters’ mouths, but lucky for you, I have a secret weapon. No, not a chainsaw slingshot (I wish). My secret dialogue weapon? Fanfiction. Write fanfiction, preferably of TV shows, but books work, too. Every book and TV show out there already has a... Read More