Bad dialogue

Each time I sit down in front of the laptop, one of my goals is to craft dialogue that is crisp, well paced, realistic and original.

A daunting task depending upon the day.

I’m much better at this than I used to be. The first draft of SOMETHING MISSING contained almost no dialogue, and though not intentional, I suspect that I was subconsciously drawn to a relatively isolated character like Martin out of fear of having to write any dialogue at all.

Eventually dialogue found its way into the bo