Things to think about -

1. What does it take to get you to really talk?

2. What was your most memorable conversation with a domestic pet?

If I use the right phrase and the reader hears the phrase in his head, he sees the individual.

Frank O'Connor

 

Dialogue is my form of poetry. I can't write poetry to save my life. Dialogue is the nearest I can come to the poetic.

V.S. Pritchett

 "Hope is what keeps us alive," I said.

He stared at me for a while. "I've a damned good mind to give you a sock on the nose," he said.

"That's more like it," I said. "You couldn't do it without hardening up a bit, but I like the spirit. Now let's talk business."

From Mandarin's Jade by Raymond Chandler

 Our characters can say things for us that we might never say to anyone else. Fiction can be a masquerade that allows us a freedom we may never have anywhere else. There is a lot to say. Why wait?

 

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Just a reminder - this piece should be an excerpt from your exercises or something inspired by them.  Let's stay current.  No old poems or stories written for your English teacher.  Thanks. We'd love to see your stuff, so send it in.

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