Dr. Nathan Dodge

Dr. Nathan Dodge retired in 1998 after 30 years as an engineer and manager in industry (including nearly 25 at Texas Instruments) and has been teaching electrical engineering courses to freshmen and sophomores at a local university in Dallas ever since. Although he has written many technical documents (including two university laboratory textbooks), this is his first venture into the literary arena. He is a voracious reader of all fiction, but particularly science fiction, fantasy, and detective novels.

He Said; She Said by Dr. Nathan Dodge (nonfiction)
      What makes a writer effective in writing fictional dialogue? Why is it that some authors can make a conversation come alive while others cannot seem to avoid a stilted, unrealistic cast to every exchange of characters?

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