- It relays important information and moves the story forward -
It shows what a character is thinking, feeling, doing - It can
be funny, scary, sad, dramatic - It breaks up the visual
monotony of large, clunky paragraphs - It reads quickly - It can
be the most memorable part of a narrative But what makes good
dialog? What are the things to do and to avoid when writing
dialog? Here are the rules that I personally use. 1. Make it
sound natural. People talk differently than they write. Writing
is slower, more deliberate, and more thought goes into it.
Speaking is looser, freer, less constricting, and less precise.
Record some dialog in natural settings--at the mall, on the
phone, on the radio. Then transcribe what you heard. You'll
notice a big difference between the spoken word and the written
word. 2. It shouldn't be too natural. In real life, people use
speach hesitators (um, uh) and repeat themseves a lot. They also
can talk for mintues at a time without a break. In your
narrative, you need to cut to the cha