As a writing teacher for over twenty years, I found that when writing narratives my students invariably wanted to include conversation. Although, I applauded their willingness to take risks, I found that most of them did not know how to go about writing dialogue.
I don't know if you are like me, but my writing is almost a part of me and I get my feeling hurt if someone criticizes it. My students felt the same way. So, instead of letting them go ahead and write dialogue, find many errors whe