How to write dialogue

How to write a crime novel, episode 14

I’m going to give you five tips on how to write dialogue in a crime novel. Or any other novel, for that matter.

Five tips on how to write dialogue in a crime novel

• Put the meaning at the end of the line
• Conflict. On the surface, or under it
• Information doesn’t come at the start of a dialogue
• Something physical should be happening. Not just talking
• No talking and driving. No thinking and driving. Driving isn’t something happening.

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