https://booksbywomen.org/dialogue-its-not-a-conversation-by-claire-mcmillan/ Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:36:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://booksbywomen.org/dialogue-its-not-a-conversation-by-claire-mcmillan/#comment-49711 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:36:43 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20408#comment-49711 Lots of great insights here, Claire. Thanks for sharing them.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/dialogue-its-not-a-conversation-by-claire-mcmillan/#comment-49114 Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:17:03 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20408#comment-49114 Your essay was truly helpful to me! Thank you.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/dialogue-its-not-a-conversation-by-claire-mcmillan/#comment-48851 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:22:51 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20408#comment-48851 Thanks for this. I’m so tired of the “dialogue should sound natural” mantra, which is, frankly, leading to a lot of inane sounding dialogue in novels. And also the “show don’t tell” precept which has writers not willing to tell the things that should just be simply told!

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