6 Ways You’re Botching Your Dialogue via LitReactor

COLUMN VIA LITREACTOR | WRITTEN BY ROB D. YOUNG

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You want to write better dialogue. You’ve learned a few tricks of the trade. Great work so far, but are you unwittingly sabotaging your work, leaving only stilted, one-dimensional dialogue for your readers? Here are six painfully common ways writers botch their dialogue.

1. These voices are all clones.

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As writers develop, they learn to write dialogue that shows off each...