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What Dialogue Can Do for Your Stories--And What It Should Never Try to Do

What Dialogue Can Do for Your Stories--And What It Should Never Try to Do

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Dec 07, 2012
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Do you write dialogue?  Did you know that many acquistions editors at publishing companies use dialogue as the "test" for whether a manuscript gets read?

In their book, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Renni Browne and Dave King tell the story of interviewing different editors in the publishing industry.  What do you look at first, when reviewing a manu…

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