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Dialog in a story serves to advance the story or develop character. I’ve been taught that dialog isn’t conversation as much as its the ‘best of conversation.’ It condenses while it evoke emotions...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T12:25:32Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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EDL
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2019-12-08T12:25:32Z (about 5 years ago)
Dialog in a story serves to advance the story or develop character. I’ve been taught that dialog isn’t conversation as much as its the ‘best of conversation.’ It condenses while it evoke emotions. It informs while obfuscating falsehoods, making them seem true and vice versa. If you are unsure about your characters dialog when you work your draft, you can either just go nutz and write it all out without trying to make it really good and pity, or you can just summarize your goal as a writer what you want to happen as a result of this dialog. Later, you can rework it once you have a better perspective on the characters or events. I find the more momentum I can maintain writing dialog the easier it is develop.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-07-10T19:51:13Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 5