Do's and Don'ts of Writing Dialogue.

• Do not use overly fancy words to report speech.

• Do not use unnecessary adjectives and adverbs. (sometimes a simple description is enough)

• Be careful with punctuation.

• Do not turn dialogue into:

  (a) Big blocks of expository material disguised as dialogue. (try to break it up in an intelligent way)

  (b) Conversations which say nothing at all except if applicable.