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I've also struggled with writing stories that take place in a different country or a time period, so I often get the dialogue wrong and I end up with my DS and Dos, all helter skelter and all over the place. Although I've seen a lot of writers modernize historical language, ignoring the eraspecific, ordinary kind of language for a very strippeddown version
All of these things can be incorporated into dialogue to make it more raw and real. I think a good way to practice dialogue writing is to write a monologue for one of your main characters and to incorporate all of these elements of speech into that monologue and play around with it. Have fun with it, because if you can make a monologue realistic and raw, that makes it easier to write a dialogue that's realistic and raw
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