HURRICANE METHOD EMAIL SWIPE 17
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Dialogue that comes alive
Links to: Written sales letter (recommended) (type=written)

SUBJECT LINE OPTIONS
1. When all your characters sound the same
2. Dialogue that just sits there on the page
3. Lindsay's Seesaw Dialog Technique

PREHEADER
Conversation is where a lot of drafts go flat, and Lindsay has a technique for it.

EMAIL
Hi {{first_name}},

Read a page of your dialogue out loud and you'll know quickly whether it works.

Flat dialogue is easy to spot, because two characters pass information back and forth with nothing at stake, so the whole scene reads like a meeting.

A quick test is to cover the names in a scene and read only the lines, because if you can't tell who is speaking, the dialogue needs work.

Lindsay Lake's answer is something she calls the Seesaw Dialog Technique. She says it shows you how to carry emotion, story and conflict through what each character says, so they come to life on the page.

She also says the depth keeps building as the scene goes on, whatever kind of novel you're writing.

If your scenes read well until your characters open their mouths, the Seesaw Dialog Technique is worth a close look:

https://hop.clickbank.net/?affiliate=YOURIDHERE&vendor=hurricanem&tid=YOURTRACKINGHERE&type=written

[Your name]

P.S. [Try this with your readers: ask them to send you one line of dialogue they're stuck on.]

I may earn a commission if you buy through my link, at no extra cost to you.

MAKE IT YOURS
If you have a line of dialogue from your own writing that you are proud of, or one that never worked, add it after the "meeting" paragraph.

Before sending, replace YOURIDHERE with your ClickBank ID and YOURTRACKINGHERE with a tracking ID (or delete "&tid=YOURTRACKINGHERE").
