If I could write realistic conversations between my characters then I feel I would get better reviews on my writing, but whenever I read over the...
I'm having some trouble introducing lore naturally in dialogue. Context : A newly discovered exoplanet is being terraformed. During the...
My dialogue seems bland. Honestly I cant even tell the difference between them during a conversation. They both sound like they have the same...
My character, Kijn is from another world, essentially like another dimension not a planet. He thus has an accent and speaks funny. But he is the...
How do you/yinz/ya'll handle acronyms in dialogue? I've got my male protagonist telling my female protagonist the tale of how he ended up in her...
So I've been currently told that my MC's dialogue doesn't always quite match the narration from her thoughts, for it's from her point of view....
When it comes to writing screenplays, I read books on it as well as online courses, and one thing that people in the business say is that movies...
“You’re going close to the Founder city!” I said in a whiney voice mocking Darcy’s words. “You’re going to get us all killed,” I mimicked Corinne....
Since my genre is historical fiction, I have a constant struggle with the question, when is political correctness more important than historical...
I put "Straight" in quotations because the characters would say, and believe, that they are straight, it would take a suggestive moment or...
Okay. So I have a chapter or scene in which the MC is telling a story. I wanted to get reactions from her. Such as how she felt terrible or...
I want to do an experiment on how everyone's brain works. I have a bit of dialogue from something i'm writing, and i want to see what everybody...
So if a scene is purely about two people talking. How do you make it less as my style has been called "two floating heads?" See, I get how...
How do you go about determining what your characters' idioms and syntax will be in dialogue (if you are using a real-life setting)? Talking with...
I have been trying to figure out how to get an interaction between three to four (the fourth is assigned to start fixing something she broke, in...
I had some dialogue formatting questions for those of you savvy in it. Because my occupation consists of me using proper grammar and punctuation,...
Hello, hopefully a quick and easy question.... When writing dialogue, I tend to sound it out in my head how I expect the character to speak,...
I have a part in my novel where three characters are having a conversation. The problem is I want to let the reader know who is speaking, without...
Hey guys. Is it acceptable to mix present and past tense in fiction and dialogue? Here's a snippet of what I'm writing: "You should really lock...
Writers at 'Writing Forum.Org', I hope this is as interesting to you guys as it is to me but my cousin Teresa is a writer. She...
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