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Fiction Writing Made Easy
#104: 10 Tips For Writing Better Dialogue
Aug 15, 2023
This podcast provides 10 tips for writing better dialogue, emphasizing the importance of purpose, conflict, and tension in dialogues. It discusses curating dialogue, creating unique character vocabularies, and using subtext. The podcast also explores the role of dialogue in controlling pacing and offers strategies for crafting engaging dialogue.
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- Dialogue should serve a purpose in the story and reveal character relationships, context, conflict, theme, or plot.
- Characters should use dialogue to further their own agendas and goals, showcasing their motivations and moving closer to or further from accomplishing them.
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Tip 1: Purposeful Dialogue
Ensure that your dialogue serves a purpose in the story, such as revealing character, establishing context, highlighting the theme, setting the tone, or advancing the plot. In the book 'Fable' by Adrian Young, the dialogue serves the purpose of establishing the context of the scene and revealing something about the character's relationships and central conflict.
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