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Podcast: Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Episode: Episode 85 - Dialogue's three most important techniques.
Description: Listening to characters speak is a great pleasure for readers. It's as if the reader is a character in the scene, listening in, eavesdropping. Here are the three most important dialogue writing techniques I can think of.  Also; how can we make our third-person narrator as intimate with the reader as a first-person narrator? Some thoughts are offered on how to get the reader close to the third-person character.  And: Mark Twain's daily writing habits.Support the showBuy the master class.