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I was doing this just last night!
On another note, does anyone else have trouble with dioluge length? I love all of the dioluge I've written, but enemies are bounding down the stairs towards are heros, and there's no way they could have had this whole conversation before being found. But I really don't want to cut any dioluge!!! I'm basically working with the reader's suspension of disbelief at the moment.
Read your work out loud
Hearing your work out loud helps you find mistakes, repetition, and awkward phrasing quicker than just reading it on the page.
Get the pacing right
When pacing a scene, it's important to know what kind of scene it is.
Less description quickens the pace. More description slows it down.
Keep your action scenes short and punchy, and your emotional scenes deep and descriptive.