A Crash Course in ‘Free Indirect Style’ Straight From the College English Department

How to write internal dialogue for your fictional characters

Dustin T. Cox
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readDec 5, 2020

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When I was working on my BA in Fiction Writing, my courses frequently required me to practice modern conventions. Students like me who were steeped in classics struggled to keep up; there really is a world of difference…

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