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Write every day. Different kinds of writing. Journaling, blogging, tweeting. Read a lot. Not just what you want to write, either. Read mythology, poetry, history, science fiction, you need variety. Variety is seasoning. Read from different cultures. Study the cadence. Study their language. I like to read different translations of the same books. Translations by bilingual or native speakers are different than ones done by English-first speakers.
Listen to people talk. Eavesdrop. Be nosey. Listen to the different dialects of Engish, Spanish, Creoles. Learn a different language if you can. Spanglish. Black vernacular English. Gullah. It will help your dialogue. Read your dialogue out loud. That's the only way it makes sense (to me). Write down the funny things people say. If you are clever you might be funny.
If you have a day job, set a time to write. Don't expect to just have time. People like to say that if you really wanna do something, you'll make time. This is a lie. There are a lot of things I want to do, like knit daily, but there simply isn't enough time. You cannot *make* time. Humans do not create time, we merely live it and feign control. But time is constantly slipping away from us, plotting and plodding away. The days are getting longer, or shorter. So set a time to write. Thirty minutes. Two hours. Or quit your job if you can. Or go part time. Get married to someone who works and makes good money. Idk. Just set aside the time you have, or you may never write.
Listen to people talk. Eavesdrop. Be nosey. Listen to the different dialects of Engish, Spanish, Creoles. Learn a different language if you can. Spanglish. Black vernacular English. Gullah. It will help your dialogue. Read your dialogue out loud. That's the only way it makes sense (to me). Write down the funny things people say. If you are clever you might be funny.
If you have a day job, set a time to write. Don't expect to just have time. People like to say that if you really wanna do something, you'll make time. This is a lie. There are a lot of things I want to do, like knit daily, but there simply isn't enough time. You cannot *make* time. Humans do not create time, we merely live it and feign control. But time is constantly slipping away from us, plotting and plodding away. The days are getting longer, or shorter. So set a time to write. Thirty minutes. Two hours. Or quit your job if you can. Or go part time. Get married to someone who works and makes good money. Idk. Just set aside the time you have, or you may never write.
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