Writing Tips: How to Craft Convincing Dialogue

Alanah Andrews
The Writing Cooperative
3 min readMar 12, 2018

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As an English teacher, working with students to craft convincing dialogue is a key aspect of any creative writing unit. Dialogue should sound natural, be engaging and shouldn’t jar you out of the story.

Here are some key things to think about when crafting that next bit of dialogue.

1) We aren’t animals

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