This is part two of my beginner’s guide to writing musical dialogue.  How can we use sound and rhythm to create beautiful writing?  In part one I introduced the idea of music as a predictable pattern of sounds and beats, and showed how in English we can organise the stressed syllables in words to produce rhythm.  In this part I will expand the idea to include the sound of words, through alliteration, assonance and repetition.  I will talk about how this impacts rhythm, tempo and pace, before finishing with the concept of cacophony and noting that you can indeed have too much of a good thing.

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