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The Agreement Turnaround
08Mar12
Today at SpecTechnique I’ve got a short article about a neat little dialogue trick I like to call the agreement turnaround. One sure sign of limp dialogue in a story is when it follows a boring question-answer, question-answer, yes-that’s-very-interesting pattern. So to generate conflict and delight, I think it’s helpful to break up that flow whenever […]
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