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17.30: Know Your Characters

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How to Write a Howard Dialogue

If you were to write howard dialogue where howard says something really mean spirited to someone he just met, that would sound out of character. There's a thing in the regency, which long time listeners will have heard me say before, that manners are an outward expression of your opinion of others. So when you are having two characters speaking to each other, what they are revealing is their own attitudes and thoughts. It's not just a, you know, it is is a way of osing how they are perceiving those around them,. Not just by what they're saying, but by the way that they are saying it.

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