18.28: Writing Conversational Dialogue
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How to Use Interruptions to Communicate Character
In real life when we're speaking, that interruption comes several words after the word that causes the character to want to interrupt. Most of the time on the page you do the interruption right at that word. If you want the dialogue to seem more natural, then you go ahead and let the character carry a couple of words past that interrupting thing. And if you really want to put a punch underneath that word for some reason, then you would have them interrupt right at that time.
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