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Podcast: Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Episode: Episode 94 - Seven big dialogue writing techniques.
Description: Dialogue in fiction is fun to write and fun to read. Here are seven techniques that'll help make our dialogue shine. Also, why should we create a character readers hate? Because those characters can be riveting, and are a strong element in the story.  Here are some famous examples from novels, not main villains, but rather secondary characters who make readers groan when they appear on the page.Here is a 20-episode master class on fiction writing—a start-to-finish course covering plot, characters, dialogue, scenes, sentence-level craft, and much more.  Each episode is focused and about 30 minutes.  The full...