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Why Strong Dialogue Matters So Much--And Three Tips to Write It

Why Strong Dialogue Matters So Much--And Three Tips to Write It

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Aug 18, 2017
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Do you write dialogue?  Did you know that many acquisitions 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 man…

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