And Now We Write

  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 47: Writing Exercise – What’s This Really About

    Our dialogue exercises this month will mostly focus on the technical mechanics of dialogue writing — but not today. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: Write a scene where a couple argues about a small issue (who left the porch light on? whose turn is it to cook dinner?). The argument they seem to be having…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 44: Writing Exercise – Direct and Indirect Dialogue

    Our dialogue exercises this month, with a couple of exceptions, will focus on the mechanics of dialogue writing. The subject of the conversation is less important than the effect of specific mechanistic choices or constraints that we’ll be playing with. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: Write a back-and-forth conversation between two people who are catching…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 41: Writing Exercise – Dialogue Tag Placement

    Our dialogue exercises this month, with a couple of exceptions, will focus on the mechanics of dialogue writing. The subject of the conversation is less important than the effect of specific mechanistic choices or constraints that we’ll be playing with. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: Write a back-and-forth conversation between two people who are trying…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 38: Writing Exercise – Dialogue Tag Variations

    Our dialogue exercises this month, with a couple of exceptions, will focus on the mechanics of dialogue writing. The subject of the conversation is less important than the effect of specific mechanistic choices or constraints that we’ll be playing with. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: It is the current conventional wisdom (and style) to use…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 35: Writing Exercise – Dialogue With and Without Context

    Our dialogue exercises this month, with a couple of exceptions, will focus on the mechanics of dialogue writing. The subject of the conversation is less important than the effect of specific mechanistic choices or constraints that we’ll be playing with. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: Write a conversation between two people about washing the dishes,…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 32: Writing Exercise – Questionable Dialogue

    Welcome to February! To kick us off this month, we’ll write a bit of dialogue that should have us questioning everything … or, at least, have one of the characters questioning everything. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: Write a scene entirely in dialogue — no stage directions or descriptions allowed. Dialogue tags (“he said,” “she…

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