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How to Write Realistic Dialogue

Friday, 6 February 2015 | Posted by Nikki Roberti

It’s probably because I was a playwright first before writing novels (or maybe because I’m a chatty person who can’t shut up–ask my cubicle mate), but I am obsessed with...

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