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Description is necessary. Exposition is useful. But it is dialogue that makes a story come alive.
Hello, my brother and sister bloggers, creative writers and Flash Fiction Fanatics. For a writer, writing dialogue can be daunting. Good dialogue must do several things.
It must characterize the speaker. When a reader reads dialogue, it must “sound” like authentic human speech. And dialogue must move the story forward. That’s a lot.
I trained myself in dialogue writing by reading Hemingway and John O’Hara over and over and over again. Now when I write a story, I can’t wait to get to the dialogue.
If you can get the dialogue right, the rest of the short story will usually fall into place.
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The Fun Of Good Dialogue
September 2, 2010 — pittsburghflashfictiongazetteImage via Wikipedia
Description is necessary. Exposition is useful. But it is dialogue that makes a story come alive.
Hello, my brother and sister bloggers, creative writers and Flash Fiction Fanatics. For a writer, writing dialogue can be daunting. Good dialogue must do several things.
It must characterize the speaker. When a reader reads dialogue, it must “sound” like authentic human speech. And dialogue must move the story forward. That’s a lot.
I trained myself in dialogue writing by reading Hemingway and John O’Hara over and over and over again. Now when I write a story, I can’t wait to get to the dialogue.
If you can get the dialogue right, the rest of the short story will usually fall into place.
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