Revive a language, revive a novel: lick your dialogue with a foreign tongue…

[Another guest post from thriller author Gina Fava. Writers should especially pay attention. I think she brings up some very important points on this one. Thanks, Gina.]

Does that little voice inside your head ever use a language other than the one you speak everyday? Ever consider dabbling in a foreign language to enhance the novel you’re writing, as in Diane Johnson’s Le Divorce?Or creating a sense of mood with dialect, like Mark Twain did inAdventures of Huckleberry Finn,or just as Dennis L...