The Elusive Perfect Comeback

Submitted by Samantha Hunter on Fri, 2008-04-25 12:34.

We were talking about dialogue a little while ago, and how effective it has to be in books, and this morning, I tripped across an email on one of my loops about the never-ending battle of how romance readers/writers respond to the snarky comments we often receive from others who think romance novels and romance readers are silly, etc. I gave up worrying about that a while ago. My niece is a lawyer, and we all know what abuse lawyers take. I mean, are there any real jokes about romance writers? The poor lawyers and dentists really get socked. So, I don't feel so bad. And anyone who reads/watches anything, the sci-fi readers, the fantasy readers, etc, everyone gets picked on for something, so I don't worry much about defending my choices or my profession anymore. (I just ask them what they read and then mock theirs, LOL. . .no, not really. Even I am not that immature...)
Wait... where was I? (It's that kind of morning...). Oh, dialogue. Right. The thing about dialogue I realized, though is that it's part of the fantasy of a book, the same way beautiful people, beautiful clothes, incredible locations, perfect, sex, and heroes are.
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