title: The Writer's Guide to Authentic Dialogue Scenes: Craft Vibrant Characters and Vivid Dialogue (Fiction Writing Tools) (Volume 4)
author:  S. A. Soule 
description: <b><span>FictionWriting Tools series reading order</span></b><span>:</span><br /><span>The Writer's Guide to Character Emotion (Book 1)</span><br /><span>The Writer's Guide to Realistic Expressions (Book 2)</span><br /><span>The Writer's Guide to Vivid Settings and Characters(Book 3)</span><br /><span>The Writers Guide to Authentic Dialogue Scenes (Book4)</span><br /><span>The Writer's Guide to a Bestselling Novel (Book 5)</span><br /><span>The Writer's Guide to Book Blurbs and Query Letters(Book 6)</span><br /><span>The Writer's Guide to Book Promotion (Book 7) </span>
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  Do me a favor. Pick nearly any two books of fiction from the shelves of a
  library or bookstore. Read a few pages of each, and compare the treatment of
  dialogue. Odds are, you'll find that the two are miles apart. One writer is
  burying himself in dialect, while the other writer uses almost no spoken words
  at all. Or one writer's characters sound like fortune cookies, while another
  one's sound exactly the way your mother did when she was chasing you around
  with that wooden spoon when you were six. Who has it right? One thing is
  clear: Every writer grapples with dialogue in her own way, and for every
  reader there are certain writers who get dialogue "right."
  
  
  What's the secret? Well, if I had the answer, I'd put it in a spice bottle and
  charge you by the gram. Practice, I guess. Keep writing. To that sort of
  advice, I grant you my own first line of dialogue: "Thanks for nothing, babe!"
  
  
  There is no secret,