Monday, March 14, 2011
Just Say It
One of the most important aspects of fiction writing is dialogue. Dialogue is often what separates the great writers from the good. It seems we all spend our time developing beautiful descriptions and elaborate phrasing and sentence structure but have a "tin ear" for dialogue. It is the key to a good story and a good character. This article is a good, short primer on the beginnings of understanding dialogue. Let me know what you think...and yes, this is a hint that I want to see some fiction going up on this blog at some point.
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I know for me,putting dialogue into a poem or a creative piece of writing is difficult. I never know how to express the thought of a characters mind into words..thats part of the reason why i favor poetry. Do you have any tips we can use?
ReplyDeleteBesides the ideas in the article...one of the best exercises is to simply listen to people talking and try to write what they will say next...you start hearing vocal patterns and speech cues etc and you can begin "writing the way you talk" which is something that makes great dialogue.
ReplyDeleteI like this article....now the trick is to utilize the information given!!! Dialogue messes my writing up like nothing else; I'm trying to write a play for dialogue practice and boy is it a challenge!
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