Between Two Voices The Art of Writing Dialogue in Fiction

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How is Dialogue Written?

Writing dialogue presents a genuine challenge for the novelist. It involves a series of highly precise artistic choices that the writer must navigate through trial and error, akin to a laboratory experiment requiring dozens of attempts at writing and rewriting until the desired form is achieved.

As Márquez said, “Literary writing is nothing but carpentry,” and therefore, it demands high skill and a keen awareness of the artistic decisions the novelist must make to produce the desired result. One of the most important questions facing the novelist within their text is the question of dialogue.

This book is an attempt to address this question.