Dialogue: how hard can it be? by Vanessa Pearse
Dialogue – a conversation between two or more people, a feature of a book… How
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Dialogue – a conversation between two or more people, a feature of a book… How
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Writing dialogue can be daunting for some writers, and for others it is second nature.
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