#WritersCoffeeClub 9th Jan 2026. What's your top tip for writing authentic dialogue?
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#WritersCoffeeClub 9th Jan 2026. What's your top tip for writing authentic dialogue?
I don't even try.
Pick up a novel—any novel. (Not "Trainspotting", you freak.) Read the dialog aloud. Alternatively, record an ongoing pub or coffee shop conversation (consensually!) and transcribe it verbatim, including all the random throat clearing and interjections. Turns out that the cadence of written speech is NOTHING LIKE that of actual speech.
The job of dialog in fiction is to convey speechiness.
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@ireneista @mntmn @cwebber well it's a general purpose UI *now* but only in a very monkeys paw way
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@cstanhope @mcc @mntmn @cwebber I like it.
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We love it when changes have non-localized and unpredictable results;
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@aeva Short of a shinier trinket to distract VCs I don't think there are any.
I dunno, dig into quantum computing and see if there's anything cool you can make and/or fake?
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lol. LLMao
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@mntmn @cwebber management types have wanted this since the 1950s. it’s why COBOL and SQL exist; it’s why RAD exists. It’s why so called “4th Generation Languages” exist. Management would like nothing more to be done with needing to think about all those pesky details like “that’s a logical impossibility” or “that’s P=NP”, they want their word to be the word of god
