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17.35: Nuances of Dialog

Writing Excuses

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Nuance in Dialogues

Pacing, a rhythm, is a the the the soundst the flow of of how the language comes out and you control that with your punctuation. As an audio book narrator, when i look at punctuation on the page, it's there totell me when to pause and breathe. A coma kind of represents, and this is very mechanical, comma kind of represents a one second pause. And a period, account for two. And a paragraph break, i count for three. In the real world it's way more flexible than that. But when you're thinking about creating someone who speaks very rapidly and they don't really ever take a breath, take all the punctuation out,.

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