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Writing Excuses 5.38: Dialog with John Scalzi

Writing Excuses

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The Importance of Slosability in Dialogue

What you're trying to do with dialogue is you want it to feel real but not be real. You know what I've noticed, particularly from new writers and these genres, they tend to go too long. There's a lot of, they want to hit every point in every paragraph. They want to make sure it's very well explained and the logic is all there. And so you end up with essentially character one steps up in monologues. Right. Then character two returns a monologue as if you were giving an email exchange, arguing a point with someone. right. Well, what it is is that they're trying to doing a Socratic argument. But if you're not

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