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17.29: The Job of Dialogue

Writing Excuses

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Compressing Conversation Into Dialogue in a Book

The compression algorithm that we use to put a conversation from real life into dialogue in book breaks some of the rules about how people converse. Any time you are breaking a rule, ah, whether it's no throwing a cruss cuss word or falling into a manhole or whatever, there's the opportunity for humour. Ah, just because of the pacing. I love, i love that. And i exploit it a lot. Yes, you you just also reminded me of a thing that i should have mentioned when we were talking about moving the story forward with the information and so on. Sometimes the thing that moves the story forward is achieving a goal andadand when you're doing that

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