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Revision Ideas for Dialogue Junkies

There are at least three of us in my writing group that just love to write dialogue.  We're perhaps a little tooo comfortable writing dialogue.  Like, maybe sometimes all a page is - is dialogue. 

I have to share this great post on the topic, How to Turn a Novel into a Textbook by Maggie Stiefvater.  Maggie takes a page from one of her novels and then tells us how it might have looked when she was starting out.  It would have been all dialogue.  A page of dialogue.

Then she walks us through some great revision ideas.  She lists "the questions I would ask myself looking at a page like this."  My favorite is "How is the writer showing a pause in dialog? By saying "she paused" or by inserting a non-dialogue paragraph?" (I had a total aha moment reading this one. LOVE IT.)  I also like "How is setting worked in?" and "Can I imagine myself there?  Why?"

Give it a look-see and let me know what you think!