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Sheryl McFarlane's avatar

Characters communicating rather than just speaking is interesting, Alison. Of course we think in terms of using gestures along with dialogue, but if you just use the idea of characters communicating, it feels like a much richer, more comprehensive approach. This just makes so much sense.

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Grace Hanna's avatar

Great information, thanx Alsion!

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Margie Peterson's avatar

“dialogue is your weakest storytelling tool” (p. 14). He is so right. The lack of punctuation reminded me of the southern writers like, Eurdora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner. The spoken word is throwaway and & of less importance.

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Alison Acheson's avatar

Though the right word, at just the right moment (or the wrong!) can be life-changing.

But I'm with him on relying on dialogue to move plot or do the work of other elements, or simply too much...

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