Yes - this is a good practice. It's amazing how dumb something can sound once you hear it out loud.
Help regarding dialogue?
I'm in the process of writing my newest story, and I'm struggling with dialogue. While I beieve that I'm working correctly in terms of what's being said, I'm having a hard time formatting this dialogue appropriately. If you remember my last story (To be her Gift), there was no dialogue save for the last sentence. I'm trying to make my work more involved this time, and as such, I'm trying to have real conversations this time.
Do you guys have any good suggestions for stories to read so that I can have a good model to base my formatting on?
Tue, 05/02/2017 - 20:53
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SvenS
Tue, 05/02/2017 - 23:15
#4
Margeret Moonlught
God, Tell me about it. It's like when I try to describe movies I like to friends, It just comes out dumb as fuck.
Tue, 05/02/2017 - 21:03
#5
SvenS
Airtankgirl has an entertaining example here: http://bodyinflation.org/node/26248#comment-23305
Wed, 05/03/2017 - 13:30
#6
This was really helpful, thank you! Feel free to give other examples if you have any in mind.
A trick that I've found p good success in is reading the dialogue out loud, and seeing if it sounds like an actual conversation between two fully functioning people, And not how a computer would think people would talk.
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