conversation

Sometimes it's helpful to listen to other people's conversations. Of course, you're not going to try to transcribe them. You're going to listen and mark interesting phrases or turns of phrase or parts of conversation and use them sometime down the writing road when you're in a scene. Most likely you'll use a reasonable facsimile of them. I heard two teenage boys talking at the pool the other day. Not that I was purposely listening, but there I hanging onto the edge of the pool and they were t...