1. How to properly punctuate the words your characters speak.
Dialogue
How to properly punctuate the words your characters speak.

2. Dialogue needs to simultaneously…
Dialogue plays and essential role in bringing characters to life. Dialogue in fiction is never merely to convey information.
Dialogue needs to simultaneously…
Characterize
Provide exposition
Set the scene
Advance the action
Foreshadow
And/or remind

3. Things to remember when writing dialogue
Write it as realistically as possible.
Make it clear who is speaking when.
Do not give too much information or unrealistic information in dialogue.
Keep the conversation moving.
Make it as easy to read as possible.

4. Edit for dialogue & Sentence Errors

5. “The Most dangerous game” by Richard Connell
Worked for his father’s newspaper
Harvard University - Journalism
Served in WWI
Many short stories became films