How to Write Distinctive Dialogue

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In their latest episode, the Writing Excuses hosts are joined by writer, teacher, and community organizer Maurice Broaddus for an eight-episode mini-master-class on writing dialogue. In this episode, Broaddus discusses his three keys: pay attention to how people speak, write in a way that evokes how they speak, and write dialogue that makes individual characters distinctive.