: Re: How do we know if a dialogue sounds unnatural without asking for feedback? I wrote a dialogue, but I am not sure if it sounds natural. I try to keep dialogue super simple so that it doesn't

Without feedback from other people, the best way would be to read your dialogue out loud... or even the whole scene or chapter to better fit it in the context in which it was written. You could use a text to speech program to read it to you instead. Hearing the words can help internalize what we've written. It can make it easier to spot problems we might have missed after many "silent" edits.

You could also try writing different versions of the dialogue and compare them to see which one flows better.

Still, sometimes we do need new sets of eyes and ears, people who are not close to our stories. Feedback is highly valuable.

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