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Why do you believe you have too much dialogue? To take the question to an extreme, have you ever read a play? It's all dialogue, and yet plot happens. Now, I understand you're not trying to write...
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2019-12-08T04:30:16Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Why do you believe you have too much dialogue? To take the question to an extreme, have you ever read a play? It's _all_ dialogue, and yet plot happens. Now, I understand you're not trying to write a play. But if your strong point is good dialogues, why not work with it? You can write the dialogue, then add descriptions of how your characters said something, what they did while they were talking, actions, interactions, gestures. What characters were thinking, holding back, not saying. Things might be happening while your characters are talking. For a brilliant example of what I'm trying to say, read the first chapter of The Master and Margarita. All of it is dialogue between three characters, with very little actually happening. And yet, we are treated to so much... Of course, your dialogue has to have a reason to be there. If it doesn't serve the plot in any way, it can go. But that is true of any text, not only of dialogue.
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