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Dialogue in fiction

Dialogue in fiction reveals character through what people say and don't say, how they avoid things, what assumptions hide in their speech, and good dialogue sounds distinct without being phonetically accurate—it's the essence extracted. Learning to write dialogue teaches you to listen more carefully to actual human speech and to notice where language reveals what's really happening beneath the surface.

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