Heart Breathings | How To Write Great Dialogue ✨📖 PREPTOBER 2023 @HeartBreathings | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 11 minutes ago.
Dialogue is one of the most powerful tools we use as writers. Today, let's talk about how we can use dialogue to make our books even better, how to balance dialogue, action, & narrative, and some of the more technical tips about dialogue.


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Books To Read:
🖤Dialogue from the Write Great Fiction by Gloria Kempton - amzn.to/3M6f2SB
🖤Goal, Motivation & Conflict by Debra Dixon - amzn.to/47dIXAL
🖤Art of Styling Sentences by Longknife and Sullivan - amzn.to/3rZLmQr
🖤The Elements of Style by Strunk & White - amzn.to/46AjJfQ
🖤The Best Punctuation Book, Period by June Casagrande - amzn.to/48XNGIa
🖤Write Your Novel From The Middle by James Scott Bell - amzn.to/46AkoOm


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OTHER LINKS MENTIONED
🖤How To Plot Your Novel Series - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg6zjsQP4PwerWfWIFZiog0lm8rsUJFh1&si=cY8rIPvBQqSIDcrz
🖤Planning Your Book Characters - youtube.com/watch?v=CVhm5kk4aqA
🖤 Preptober 2020 Playlist - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg6zjsQP4PwfVbPVGoDxRo9btcfqJ6zL_
🖤 Preptober 2021 Playlist - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg6zjsQP4Pwf9qb3Vp1zunWMXd-4qLeR2
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🖤 Writing Great Scenes Series - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg6zjsQP4Pwf4X0J42wtjUMJdy5dMEZgK




Chapters
0:00 Dialogue In Your Books
1:37 Dialogue As A Tool
8:00 Backstory
14:05 Know Your Characters
22:51 Balance Dialogue Narrative & Action
29:36 Attribution
34:14 Dialogue Tags
37:48 Final Thoughts


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