This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 250 second episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

Something I've been focusing on a lot lately in my own writing

is how to make dialogue pop.

So I've been doing something a little different

in my latest edit of my Diesel Punk historical work

and progress storming.

I'm doing a dialogue only at it.

Pop a right smart quotation mark into the fine box inward

and just cruise right through.

It's fun to focus on just the back and forth interaction

without the narrative.

And it's also proving to be a great way of not just tightening up the dialogue itself,

but also catching inconsistencies and nonsensical argument progressions.

So give it a try.

The latest post in the series on my blog is, maybe your bad guy is right.

It shares the single most effective trick ever for creating realistic,

compelling, and powerful bad guys. To find the post, visit my site at helping

writers become authors. To find the post, visit my site at Helping Writers Become Authors.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled How to Write a Negative Character

Art Part 2, the second act. The second act in a negative character

arc bears a lot of similarity to that in a positive change arc. In both types of

arc, the character will be thrust out of his normal world

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