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11 months ago

I was doing this just last night!

On another note, does anyone else have trouble with dioluge length? I love all of the dioluge I've written, but enemies are bounding down the stairs towards are heros, and there's no way they could have had this whole conversation before being found. But I really don't want to cut any dioluge!!! I'm basically working with the reader's suspension of disbelief at the moment.

Read your work out loud

Hearing your work out loud helps you find mistakes, repetition, and awkward phrasing quicker than just reading it on the page.


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