Learning dialogue is an art all its own, and it’s one that you must master (or at least achieve competence in) if you want to be an effective writer. Let this list be your guide to achieving dialogue that brings life to your story rather than leaving it bloated and ready to crawl off and die. Yes, the quality of your dialogue can make or break your story. The principal use of dialogue is to bring conflict to a scene and to show character. Please keep this in mind while you are crafting your dialogue (or rewriting it). First, what you shouldn’t be doing. Do Not Have Speeches in Dialogue…