Keep boring conversations out of your fiction

Editor Louise Harnby opens her discussion of effective, compelling dialogue with a handy trick.

Evaluate your dialogue by three measures: voice, mood, and intention.

That will help you weed out realistic but boring exchanges, she says.

Harnby shares more on her three-pronged approach to assessing dialogue and gives examples of it in action on her blog.

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