: Writing like this looks bullet proof on the page, meaning that readers will likely skip over it. Rather than have your dialog in a stream of words, why not break it up into a conversation?

Writing like this looks bullet proof on the page, meaning that readers will likely skip over it. Rather than have your dialog in a stream of words, why not break it up into a conversation? Can't do that, okay. So include something like "Then he stopped for a breath and continued."
Or include a stop like the speaker takes a sip of coffee? Looks out the window, anything to introduce a break to give the reader a break.
You say this is on a video. Can you expound on that? Do you mean its transcribed from a video? Be that as it may, I don't recommend writing this way. Please tell me more.

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: Writing like this looks bullet proof on the page, meaning that readers will likely skip over it. Rather than have your dialog in a stream of words, why not break it up into a conversation?

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