SadieM

Those are both spectacular answers! This does give a lot of advice, more than you guys could possibly know. I always feel like something is missing when I put each ...

So basically, two of my main characters have issues: they both have this little thing called "darkness" messing around with them throughout the book, and it's like a demon inside ...

Write as normally as you can, until you get the point where Microsoft Word is pissing you off too much to go on with the slang. Then cancel the grammar ...

A way I enjoy to write believable dialogue is to close my eyes and imagine the characters in a movie, and pay close attention to their movements while they speak. ...