You need social skills to have a conversation in real life -- but they're quite different from the skills you need to write good dialogue. Educator Nadia Kalman suggests a few "anti-social skills," like eavesdropping and muttering to yourself, that can help you write an effective dialogue for your next story. Free registration is required to receive full access to the the complete lessons.

Concepts

writing dialogue

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Additional Tags

effective dialogue, skills to improve your writing, ted ed, ted ed lesson, narrative writing

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

CCRA.SL.1