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In this episode we cover: 

• The difference between dialogue and exposition
• Making dialogue shine in the four parts of a scene
• Developing character voice
• Letting emotion influence dialogue
• The four types of characters

This week’s question is: recommend me a podcast

Recommendation of the week is: Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliot

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Links I mentioned:

Katlyn’s Course: From Chaos to Control

Find out more about Jeff:

The Dialogue Doctor

Rebel of the Week is: Omar

If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com

No new patrons this week, but a big thank you to my existing patrons. If you’d like to support the show, and get early access to all the episodes as well as bonus content you can from as little as $2 a month by visiting: www.patreon.com/sachablack

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In this episode we cover: 

• Character creation and personification
• Writing elements to represent theme
• Bringing stories full circle
• Advice for writing dialogue
• Incorporating mythology into stories

This week’s question is: What have you binged this year?

Recommendation of the week is: Worst Wedding Date by Pippa Grant

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Find out more about TJ:

In The Lives of Puppets

Ravensong (Green Creek book 2)

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Rebel of the Week is: Karla 

If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com

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In this episode we cover: 

• The differences between indie and trad publishing
• Advice for writing cozy fantasy
• Creating great descriptions
• Narrating your own book
• Writing better dialogue

This week’s question is: what is giving you joy at the moment?

Recommendation of the week is: Reclaim Your Author Career by Claire Taylor

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Links I mentioned:

13 Steps to Evil: How to Craft Superbad Villains and 10 Steps to Hero: How to Craft Kickass Protagonists are just £1.99 each for the rest of January. Grab them now on all stores.

Preorder A Game of Hearts and Heists

Find out more about Travis:

Twitter @travisbaldree
Instagram @travis_baldree
Legends & Lattes

Rebel of the Week is: Anonymous

If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com

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In this episode we cover: 

• How to create character voices
• Behavioural consistency vs character arcs
• Creating better dialogue
• How to create and use character detail
• How to write about identity authentically

This week’s question is: We’re almost halfway through the year, are you where you want to be?

Recommendation of the week is:  The Self-Publishing Blueprint: A complete guide to help you self-publish your book by Daniel Willcocks

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13 Storey Treehouse Books by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton

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Links and events I mentioned are:

The Rebel Author Diaries Anthology Submissions are now open.

Find out more here.

Boni Podcast on sentence level prose:

Link to the podcast

Link to the blog (where we link to the podcast :0)

Interview on Jenna’s show all about how to podcast as an author.

Street Team

Find out more about Joya on:

Instagram: @joya.goffney

Website

Buy the book

Rebel of the Week is: Estelle Van de Velde 

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In this episode we cover:

• The most important elements when creating dialogue
• Mistakes to avoid when writing dialogue
• How to use psychology to help improve your dialogue
• How to differentiate character’s dialogue
• How to manage a big cast of characters and all their different ways of speaking
• What monomouth is and how to get rid of it

This week’s question is: What character/book or movie’s dialogue do you like best?

Recommendation of the week is: Nail Your Novel: Writing Characters Who’ll Keep Readers Captivated by Roz Morris

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Links I mentioned are:

The Senses Course Launch

Story Bundle

Dialogue Doctor Discount

Jeff is also giving listeners a discount on his services. His 1-hour chapter session is typically $99. If you include the name of my podcast when you register, he’ll give you 25% off. Register here

Search for “Writer’s Well” in your podcasters and look for Episode 138 where Rachael and J discuss Jeff and the help he gave J with his dialogue

Find out more about Jeff on:

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Jeff had some recommendations for books and movies with great dialogue:

Books with dialogue he loves:

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Great Divorce by CS Lewis
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tart
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

TV Shows and Movies with Amazing Dialogue:

• The Magicians
• Gilmore Girls
• When Harry Met Sally
• The Princess Bride
• Mission Impossible (1996 movie – best dialogue in an action film)

Listener Rebel of the Week is: Bobbie Ann Atwood

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The worst mistake you can make is writing fictional dialogue in the style of a normal conversation.

We litter our prose with ums and ahhhs and loop backs and repetition. If you wrote dialogue like that in your novels you’d bore your readers to tears.

Mastering dialogue is one of THE quickest ways to improve your manuscripts. It creates pace and tension and can even get you noticed by literary agents and publishers.

So the question is… how should you write dialogue? If only there was a nifty resource that could teach you how to master it…

Well, I know just such a thing…

Joan Dempsey is an award-winning author, writing teacher and friend of mine. I don’t recall exactly how I met Joan, but I do remember the first time I used her teaching services. I paid for a critique of my first novel, Keepers. Her insightful comments and explanations made my writing jump a gazillion notches. But more than that, she gave me a confidence I was lacking and that was enough to spur me on to complete Keepers.

I rarely promote anything unless I truly believe in the value of it, but believe me when I tell you, Joan’s courses are serious value for money.

I want to learn more about Joan’s course

Joan’s dialogue course has seven modules, looks at the five functions of dialogue and even has personalised feedback on every assignment you complete. There’s videos, group forums and everything you could possibly want.

For more information on the course, including the full course model outline, just click here.*

Like with all good things, it must come to an end. Joan’s highly sought after course is only open for another 8 days, she can’t give personalised feedback to everyone, after all.

If you’re serious about developing your writing, if you want to hook a publisher in the next year, or if you’re just after objective feedback from one of the nicest authors I know, then go check out Joan’s course.

That link one more time…

I’m ready to check out Joan’s course

*please note, this is an affiliate link, so if you sign up to the course, I will earn a small commission. However, any readers of this blog know it’s rare I promote anything and that I only promote services I truly believe in.

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