Watch your attitude (and theirs)

Reader, I've been thinking a lot about dialogue lately. It's partly because I just wrapped my developmental edit of the second novel in S. M. Dunning's Perilous Times Saga. Stephen's characters are, like the author, keen conversationalists—one of the things that makes his fiction so delightful. That said, I've long been fascinated by the way words tumble out of our mouths. Verbal typos. Misused words. Non sequiturs. Sentences that never properly— Here's the cold hard truth: written dialogue...