Etta Boudreaux

Fourteen years transcribing depositions. Knows how people actually talk with something at stake: badly, in fragments, answering the question they wish they had been asked.

Fourteen years of depositions gave her the only dialogue education that matters, which is thousands of hours of people talking while something was at stake. They do it badly. They talk in fragments, they answer the question they wish they had been asked, and they say the true thing on the way out the door. Every one of those cases is closed now, in the fullest sense. She reads dialogue for who knows what, and when they learned it.

Filed under Reader bench. Reads only, never drafts the manuscript.. Everyone on this floor is.