I wanted to write a story set in Appalachia. Do folks have any advice in terms of word usage and choices? Would "skunk" become "polecat?"
Hi! Good evening here (yes it's over than midnigth actually in France...) I'm new on the forum and I have to ask you something. I am a french...
Every so often, there are infamously clumsily lines in TV shows, books, and films that become widely mocked memes. For example, Star Wars Rise of...
This is a real challenge for me, to give every character their own unique style of speach.
Any snippet of dialogue that cracks you up and you'd like to share as a promt or for a laugh. Made up, read, overheard, all (to a reasonable...
TV Tropes refers to "As You Know" exposition as information shoehorned into dialogue for the audiences' benefit, even though characters talking...
Robert McKee, in his book Dialogue, asserts that subtextual dialogue is idiosyncratic of realistic, mimetic genres of storytelling, as opposed to...
Hi, everyone. I'm struggling with finding the answer to my dialog question. Which is the correct paragraph structure for action before dialog:...
I'm writing a mystery novel, and I'm kind of using the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle as a blueprint for my writing structure. However, I've...
I'm not sure if I need to put this dialogue on a new paragraph or if it can stay on the same line as the description of the person about to speak:...
Hey all! Lately as I have been looking over some writings, I wonder about ways to not have all my characters sound exactly the same. It's...
Hi Everyone, I'm a complete beginner, trying to piece together my first book. It's taken me six weeks to reach twenty pages due to the...
(apologies if some of my posts are not in the right threads - I'm still getting the hang of the layout. I figure this is a general writing...
I'm still learning to write and tend to avoid dialogue as it always feels clunky and boring to read to me. So I've decided to write a small piece...
In terms of the length of each dialogue scene, that is. In my book "The Exclusion Zone", the story is a combination man-v-man /...
I have an inner conflict where I feel like I need to write a little bit between when character are talking. I.e. "Whattup, man," said Josh. He...
Hi, I have just signed up to this site and hope that I will be able to get some help with my writing. I am stuck on how to punctuate dialogue...
[MEDIA] Kind of a clever way at looking at story dialogue in an almost poetic fashion. Pay attention to the beats before the breaths to make the...
http://www.betternovelproject.com/blog/dialogue/ This little list is a good tool for going through your dialogue to make it sound more natural...
Hey all, I'm new here, first time poster yay! Anyway I'm writing a YA story at the moment and there is a scene where I have three characters...
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