#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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@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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Don’t follow Trump’s gut, you know where you’ll end up.
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@jeffjarvis his git is full of mcd's, wtf do they think it's gonna have???
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@efi @aeva true, but dissolving metals is still pretty slow.
And a surprising number of plastics are resistant against acids as well
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@jeffjarvis And now headlines that rhyme! #DrSuess
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"Follows his gut." The #BrokenTimes finds a new way to normalize a fascist starting an illegal war.
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