#LoveOzLit: Todd Alexander’s simple trick to good dialogue
What comes to mind when looking back on the quotes of this round of #LoveOzLit quotes is how utterly, wonderfully simple the advice is….
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#LoveOzLit: Deborah Biancotti on dialogue
Deborah Biancotti is the co-author of Zeroes, a YA urban fantasy that was released late last year — and pretty much everyone was talking about…
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#LoveOzLit: Candice Fox on gender & dialogue
Candice Fox brings up an interesting point about gender and dialogue, and this is a difference I haven’t thought of before, have you? I…
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#LoveOzLit: Anne Buist on the practicalities of dialogue
In the quote above, Anne Buist tackles the practicalities of dialogue, the kind of stuff you think you know, and inevitably forget when you’re…
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#LoveOzLit: Tony Park on building characters through dialogue
Journalism demands accuracy and nothing less. It’s amazing how the slightest turn of phrase can change a meaning or rather mean something entirely different to…
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#LoveOzLit: Ailsa Piper on dialogue
The next time you’re on the bus and talking too loudly, just remember an author might be listening! I’ve listened to one too many…
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#LoveOzLit: Maria Lewis on dialogue that sings
I am envious of anyone with that indefinable something that has the perfect comeback — whether in life or on paper. Mostly, because I…
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#LoveOzLit: Barry Maitland on how dialogue changes
Dialogue is how you’re going to find your best friend in a book or find your heart in your mouth as the main character…
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#LoveOzLit: Pamela Hart on dialogue
Dialogue is making my life complicated. I just finished a book today that left me underwhelmed by the ending, massively so, but the atmosphere,…
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#LoveOzLit: Anne Buist on bookshops and libraries
Anne Buist, author of Medea’s Curse and the upcoming Dangerous to Know, shares how her love for books began, and how it continues today:…
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