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February 19, 2010

Cut Superfluous Dialogue

February 19, 2010/ JW

Dialogue which does not move the story along, or add to the mood of the story, or have an easily definable reason for being there at all (such as to establish important characterization), should be considered superfluous and therefore cut.

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