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Mike L Tilford 📚 😺 @thatwriterguy.com

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When you forget to write dialogue during description and exposition. Jim from The Office holding up a yellow pad that says: Nobody has said anything in . . . 14 min!
sep 1, 2025, 7:27 pm • 51 8

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Amy @amykbooks.bsky.social

My first draft is always just dialog, and people nodding and looking at each other. Any description over 2 sentences is like pulling out my own teeth.

sep 1, 2025, 7:35 pm • 1 0 • view
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ANDREWESC @andrewejesse.bsky.social

I know read more lol

sep 1, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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Dee Burk @dburkauthor.bsky.social

I have the opposite problem a lot of the time. I have a lot of dialog and then I wonder if I should be describing more. >_<

sep 2, 2025, 4:13 am • 1 0 • view
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adamarcadia81.bsky.social @adamarcadia81.bsky.social

yeeeep. Imagine my surprise when I went back and rewrote one of my published chapters... only to discover I had left out a key piece of dialogue. Thank God online novels can be edited.

sep 1, 2025, 10:35 pm • 1 0 • view
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James Lynch @jamesblynch.bsky.social

I'm the opposite. I'll realize there's been nothing but dialogue back-and-forths for several pages and no one's done anything. 😆

sep 1, 2025, 7:30 pm • 2 0 • view