How to Craft Dialogue: The Archive

So, funny story: I go to archive my “How to Write Dialogue” series and discover that it isn’t in the sidebar, which seems weird.  So then I search for it.  It turns out that it doesn’t exist.  Because I never wrote one.  The other six sections of the checklist were based on series I wrote, but I apparently just cobbled together the Dialogue section of the checklist from “Storyteller’s Rulebook” posts I’d written.  So I decide that it’s high time this was in the sidebar, so I make a list of all the posts with a tag that says Dialogue, and I realize that I haven’t been doing this with the other categories, because it’s a ton of work, because I’ve written hundreds of “Storyteller’s Rulebook” posts.  Nevertheless, here you go: I never wrote this series so you get more than you could have asked for:

• Storyteller’s Rulebook #22: Be An Armchair Journalist
• Storyteller’s Rulebook: Bonus Follow-Up Report!
• There were lots of posts about Head-Heart-Gut, so I’ll just link you to the archive I’ve already done of those posts: Head-Heart-Gut (aka How to Create a Polarized Ensemble): The Archive
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #29: Know What They Do All Day
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #30: Be A Good God
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #33: Be Unhateable
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #42: People Only Want What They Want
• Beyond Good Vs. Sucky, Part 5: Dialogue
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #55: Angry Minds Don't Think Alike
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #59: Upsetting News Is The Best News
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #61: Sweet Potato Is Better Than Sweetheart
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #63: If They Hang Themselves, It Should Probably Be Accidental
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #67: Be A Little Bit Incomprehensible
• Storyteller's Rulebook #105: Explaining the Plot is Not Your Characters’ Job
• Storyteller's Rulebook #115: People Lie About Their Feelings
• Storyteller's Rulebook #116: Listen to Despicable People
• Storyteller's Rulebook #118: Limit Your Hero's Perspective
• Storyteller's Rulebook #121: Sympathy Isn’t Necessary, But Empathy Is
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #127: Have One Gutpunch Scene
• Storyteller's Rulebook #130: Practice Loving Everybody
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #132: What We Talk About When We Don’t Talk About What We’re Really Talking About
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #138: People Don’t Speak in Complex Sentences
• Storyteller's Rulebook #167: Don't Make Them Say It
• Now You Can Revise, Part 4: Add More “I Understand You” Moments
• Storyteller's Rulebook #172: Commas Are Death
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #173: Beware of Instant Conflict!
• Storyteller's Rulebook #173: Know How to Dog Whistle
• Storytelling Rulebook #181: Know the Three Levels of Tradecraft
• Storyteller's Rulebook #182: Cut the Dull Bits Out (And Keep the Personality In)
• Storyteller’s Rulebook #196: Ban Parallel Construction