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18.28: Writing Conversational Dialogue

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The Importance of Repetition in Dialogue

When I'm even conversation with somebody about how I'm feeling about something, it is rare that I am directly stating it, right? I'm talking about effects. And also so many things in romance and romcom and drama, people will say such that they should cruel things without any sort of warm up or even any sort of justification because wow, that's the punchy bit. Now, what do I want to look at a Marvel movie might have like super compressed, bantery stuff and then trying to figure out where do we want to fall in between?"

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