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Old 12-31-2012, 02:11 AM   #1
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I googled ‘Can a novel be mostly dialogue’ and found this forum...
So thank you Jefferey Pace for asking the same question!

And thank you everyone for weighing in

Thank you especially "eyeblink" and "maestrowork" – I immediately bought Red Shift and No Country For Old Men

(Also put The Friday Society on my wish list for later. Looks like a movie crying out for three leading ladies!)

For anyone else wondering about dialogue driven novels...

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/....php?p=2908300
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That's funny
When I was writing my novel, I used to ask if I could just patch in the dialogue later
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glad you found your way here!
aren't those novels with only dialog called screenplays?
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Interesting way to have found this forum. I found it googling a small start up publishing house to see if it was a scam or not. Apparently E64 looks pretty shady to most.
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