Drama is "life with the boring bits cut out." Dialogue is, too.
Alfred Hitchcock said drama is "life with the boring bits cut out." Dialogue is like that, too.
As William Noble says in his book, Conflict, Action & Suspense (Elements of Fiction Writing), “Dialogue is a special kind of conversation; it’s a conversation with drama!”
This post (the paid kind, sorry) is going to delve into dialogue a bit more via example.
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