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  • Pulp Rag: Messing with each other’s head: dialog in action

    Shall we see if I can get through a whole post about dialog talking about. . .dialog?

    I follow Twitter. Not enough, apparently, to see everything that goes by, because lots of people use it as a mirror they glance into constantly throughout the day assuming—I guess—the rest of us want to see what’s there. So while I’m scanning for links to articles on writing fiction with something fresh and new to say (very rare), I’m also wading through endless post-its about what people are eating, where, why, and what they think of what each other is eating.

    Let me answer all those questions for you now and get it over with: chocolate, at their desk, because they just need a little pick-me-up from reading all those peeks into other people’s mirrors. And what they think of what others are eating? Yeah, they think it’s a good idea.

    Is Twitter dialog?

    No, it is not. Twitter is almost exclusively monologue, which is why it’s so often unbearably boring.

    IM, on the other hand, is sometimes the only thing that gets me through the day. . .

    Read the full post on Pulp Rag.

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Scott Warrender
Short story author Scott Warrender is a Mentoring Program client. I have done full Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing on a number of short stories for him, the first of which was his poignant fictional memoir of Africa, ''The Boy With the Newsprint Kite,'' now published in the Foundling Review.

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Bhaichand Patel is the author of two nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), and Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009). I edited Patel's debut novel, When the Streets Were Cold and Dark.

I've edited a number of nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth. (Many years ago, my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was simply a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation.)

The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has recent stories in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him on his debut novel Heliophobia and WIP Pogue.