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Scenario

How to write natural-sounding dialogue

I can write everything except dialogue and my characters just stand around making speeches at each other

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The artificial nature of written speech reveals the deeper challenge of capturing the rhythms of human connection on the page.

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Mura
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