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⌈ Secret Post #2176 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Let's talk about dialogue!

[mekkio]

Bad dialog = when all the character sound the same. A 15 year old street rat, punker should not sound like a 75 year old Oxford professor and visa versa. Your characters should each have a voice.

Bad dialog = Everything is too proper. All sentences are full. Nothing is clipped. Even the most stuff shirt will speak in a clip from time to time. Now to have all your characters speak like that, well, that's jarring.

The best advice I have for writing dialog is to speak it out loud. If you are having a hard time spitting it out, get rid of it and start over. I don't care how important it is to the story, how the words need to be just right or how long you've spent on working on it. TRASH IT. It doesn't work. Rework it until you can speak it out loud without it feeling awkward coming out of your mouth. It doesn't have to be in your voice. It can be your character's voice. But you will learn quickly what sounds right and what sounds wrong if you speak your dialog out loud.