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Posted: 05/10/11 11:51 | 0 Comments

Mike Harris, the author of OCA’s latest creative writing course, Narrative and Dialogue, looks at three common assumptions made by newer writers about their craft. Novelists and writers of narrative poetry have as much need as writers of scripts for stage and screen to work hard on writing dialogue. If you think you know what a writer’s deadline is, it might be time to think again. A conflict doesn’t have to be cataclysmic; for writers of dialogue, it can start with a small domestic dispute.