Keeping things vague for a purpose and being unclear about what to say are two different things. As a writer myself, being stuck on vague ideas sucks. It slows you down and makes your writing dull.

The Shenmue series has always been known for its epic scope and cinematic storytelling - by the standards of the time, at least - but its dialogue has always been just corny enough to be a constant ...

I'm always on the lookout for concrete examples of real dialogue in action. A friend forwarded this story to me from The Huffington Post: "Dan and Me: My Coming Out as a Friend of Dan Cathy and ...