The 6 Most Common Mistakes When Writing Dialogue and How to Avoid Them

By Laura Harrington “You can write the sharpest, most glittering, wisest, poetic, hilariously dazzling dialogue, but if that dialogue doesn’t do its true work and open the dramatic world underneath, it’s dead on arrival.”  John Guare, author of Six Degrees of Separation, House of Blue Leaves, and one of my favorite ...