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Living Dialog: Bring Your Characters' Words to Life, Part One: The Basics Plot & Structure Writer's Digest Books)Truly living dialog is brilliantly crafted, perfectly vivid, exactly appropriate, layered and nuanced. . . and it just sounds right. In this two part, 57 minute tutorial we'll start with the basics, including the subtleties of punctuation, the varied of verbs of speaking, the options for attribution, and all important non verbal communication that brings a character to life. Editor and author Philip Athans has worked with best selling veteran authors,