7 Tips for Writing Better Dialogue

Posted on by Rob Bignell

• How to pen engaging dialogue for your story
• How to make dialogue sound realistic
• Delete bookisms in your story’s dialogue
• Place dialogue attribution in right spots
• Avoid placing attribution before dialogue
• Mastering the fine art of dialogue punctuation
• Place commas inside quotation marks
• BONUS: “The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.” – Robert Frost