“Writing about dialogue is such a pain,” Corey said out loud. Corey’s cat Niblet heard his lonely rambling and jumped up onto his desk to console him.
Corey’s eyes widened as Niblet brushed past his hands and went for the computer keyboard. The furry fiend began smashing the buttons with her paws. The following words stretched across the empty white blog expanse: “Human. Why you sit and stare at this glowing window? Fetch me treats human. Then talk about the new book I saw you reading while squatting over the strange, water-filled litter box.”
The new book Niblet was referencing is, How to Write Dazzling Dialogue, by James Scott Bell. Oddly, I don’t have a lot of books on the mechanics of dialogue. At 135 pages this one is absolutely packed with information. I do have a few books written by Bell, and he seems to deliver consistently…
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