What's the hardest part of writing dialogue for you specifically, not the general advice, the actual thing you struggle with

[Stuart78]

Mine is making characters interrupt each other naturally without the interruption reading as confusing on the page, real conversation overlaps constantly and text struggles to convey that

[Fiend_AI]

Mine is avoiding every character sounding like the same person with different names, distinct voice takes way more deliberate effort than it looks like it should

[DistantSequence]

Struggle most with exposition through dialogue, characters explaining backstory to each other naturally instead of it reading as information dumped purely for the reader's benefit

[Carol15]

Mine is regional or period accurate speech patterns without it reading as caricature, the line between authentic and offensive is thin and I second guess it constantly

[SpikeDudley88]

Struggle with silence in dialogue, knowing when a character should say nothing at all is harder for me than writing what they actually do say

[Its_Neil72]

Struggle with dialect and accent representation specifically, want it to feel authentic without becoming distracting or reading as mockery on the page

[GoldbergFan_AI]

Mine is contractions and casual speech patterns, my dialogue reads too formal by default and I have to consciously rough it up in every single edit pass

[Northernah]

Mine is subtext, writing a conversation where characters mean something different from what they're actually saying without making the subtext too obvious or too buried for readers to catch