Post by account_disabled on Dec 6, 2023 10:37:27 GMT
I believe that dialogues are one of the elements of the story that gives the writer the most problems, which puts many novice authors in difficulty. Some time ago I too was convinced that writing dialogue was difficult, perhaps because I had never started doing it seriously. Yet now they are the part of the story that worries me least, so much so that I often tend to write too many, when in reality I love stories that have few. Sooner or later I would like to try my hand at writing a drama, the idea is already in my head, and there I will have no problem curbing the torrent of speech that seems to come so naturally to me. What I think is that a dialogue is indeed a static part of our history, but it equally represents a certain dynamism, if not in gestures, then in communication.
The characters are not just communicating with each other, but are a tool for the writer to communicate with us readers. Real world dialogues We are very lucky when we write the dialogues of a story: we can "observe" them directly in the field, which is impossible for us in the description of a murder, a medieval battle, star wars, conquests of thrones Phone Number Data and talismans. And it's not the same as being able to observe all this in a film, because it is fiction that suggests other fiction. The real world, however, is not fiction and the dialogues are indeed real. But what should we take from the real dialogue, from what we hear with our ears every day, and what, instead, should we leave out? Peculiarities of real language We all know how we talk. We assume different "languages" depending on our interlocutors.
Don't tell me that you talk to your friends in the same way as you would in a job interview or a university exam, etc. We are human beings, we are neither politicians nor rich nor noble. We tend to interrupt our interlocutor : the dialogue breaks, divides, opens parentheses and is diverted elsewhere, towards other thoughts and concepts, before retracing its steps. We make fun and make jokes : it's part of us - of me, then, it's almost the prevailing part - to joke with friends, to use sarcasm, to have offhand humour. We hesitate aloud : when we speak, we are facing each other. If they ask us a question, we don't sit around for 3 minutes staring into space - unless it's one of my school questions: there were a lot of minutes on those occasions - but we try to think about the answer verbally to give. We tend to repeat : if they ask us a question, it is often normal for us to repeat it, as if the answer scared us.
The characters are not just communicating with each other, but are a tool for the writer to communicate with us readers. Real world dialogues We are very lucky when we write the dialogues of a story: we can "observe" them directly in the field, which is impossible for us in the description of a murder, a medieval battle, star wars, conquests of thrones Phone Number Data and talismans. And it's not the same as being able to observe all this in a film, because it is fiction that suggests other fiction. The real world, however, is not fiction and the dialogues are indeed real. But what should we take from the real dialogue, from what we hear with our ears every day, and what, instead, should we leave out? Peculiarities of real language We all know how we talk. We assume different "languages" depending on our interlocutors.
Don't tell me that you talk to your friends in the same way as you would in a job interview or a university exam, etc. We are human beings, we are neither politicians nor rich nor noble. We tend to interrupt our interlocutor : the dialogue breaks, divides, opens parentheses and is diverted elsewhere, towards other thoughts and concepts, before retracing its steps. We make fun and make jokes : it's part of us - of me, then, it's almost the prevailing part - to joke with friends, to use sarcasm, to have offhand humour. We hesitate aloud : when we speak, we are facing each other. If they ask us a question, we don't sit around for 3 minutes staring into space - unless it's one of my school questions: there were a lot of minutes on those occasions - but we try to think about the answer verbally to give. We tend to repeat : if they ask us a question, it is often normal for us to repeat it, as if the answer scared us.