Writing for Weird Times by Amy Guth

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Weird exercise to make you suck less

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Jul 12, 2020
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Real talk: writing dialogue is not the easiest thing to do well.

Today, challenge yourself to write a at least two pages of conversation between two or more people without using any “they said”/”she quipped”/”he replied.” None of that. Just write the dialogue.

Setting aside the “he replies, taken aback” sort of tools forces you to show the relationship …

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