Writing Dialogue

A technical primer denoting some rules and conventions.

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For many of us, we internalise the rules of writing by reading — by sheer osmosis, we take them in, and we replicate them in our own work, often without even realising. When it comes to technical rules, though, it can be difficult to grasp them intuitively because they’re tethered to other rules of grammar we might not entirely understand…