Disclaimer: Chalk this up to yet another post I should've made when I first joined here. God, what's wrong with me? In the last two creative writing classes I've taken over the years, the most glaring critique I've gotten from the teacher was that I had to learn dialogue. Stupid guy that I was, I never asked her to clarify but upon reviewing my submissions, I do get the feeling that my characters sound the same; they never sound like their own person. I guess my question is two-fold: how does one properly learn dialogue, and how do you differ each dialogue per character so you know who is who? I always figured that if you added 'said [character name]' you were fine, but apparently there's more to it than I thought.