Who’s Afraid of Ramona Singer?

A writer’s foray into the world of the “Real Housewives”

Sometimes as a writer, you have to ask yourself how closely you want to hew to the way real people talk. How far do you want to go? How much value is there in momentarily (hopefully) confusing a reader for the sake of verisimilitude? The way we speak in real life is sometimes not all that riveting or clear when you…