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The Making of a Dialogue Exercise

By Douglas | Published: July 25, 2011
Here's the thing though—and maybe this was his hope for whatever he was talking about with subtext—these are overt pairings. To get to the subtext, to get to the part where the reader plays a role in the dialogue, you need to write these pairs indirectly or askew of the mark.
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Looking for a New Exercise

By Douglas | Published: July 23, 2011
The ten pairs cling tremulously to that blog, and I'm sure I'd have to prop them up with some brain lifting before I had an exercise worth doing. As far as I know though, that's the best I've got for dialogue craft.
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Comma On My Mind

By Douglas | Published: November 11, 2010
I think today I'll do some exercises, and I may seek new ones.
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