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Episode 68 - Do we have an idea or a plot? Also: how to write joyful dialogue.

Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

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How to Write Joyful Dialogue

Socrates said quote the right word is a sure sign of good thinking. Here are some ideas about how to write dialogue that is filled with joy. Joy is particularly effective in dialogue when contrasted with another character's painful dialogue. What brings joy to one brings pain to another. How does any Spanish or German or French or Chinese speaker come to our country how do they ever learn English with loosen and unloosen meaning the same thing? We're going to sell a reader a whole new life when we finish our novel. When you sell a man a book you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue you sell him a whole newlife.

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