Comments on: Novel diagnosis–dialogue

By: December 3 « Thursday Morning Writers

December 3 « Thursday Morning Writers — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:19:04 +0000

[...] Example reading of Dialogue to read. [...]

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:52:50 +0000

I think I’m more into dialogue – because
~ I love to watch movies and focus on the expressions and dialogue
~ I was afraid of writing – ‘the parts that people don’t read’= Elmore Leonard [?]– not because I was afraid they woldn’t read it but I didn’t want to do an information dump

~ I came from writing many PBs – before I decided to work on writing novels

I’m going to try to spend more time reading YA & MG and less time watching movies for a while

By: darcy

darcy — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:40:21 +0000

Liz–It sounds like you know what to do–add in more setting, narration, actions, and inner thoughts.

Any reason you can think of that your bent is toward dialogue? Do you skip over descriptions when you read?

Darcy

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:30:09 +0000

I’ve started using your postings to go thru another round of ‘visioning’ and editing my YA novel.

Today’s trouble spot for me — is that writing group friends have critiqued the novel as a whole now and say [& I agree now that they've shown me :o) ] that the novel is dialogue-heavy –

Today — I’m going to skim thru your posts and hopefully find an Rx for fixing/enhacing my novel – so it’s less dialog-heavy.

So — thanks for your postings

I think I tend to use dialogue for action – to move the story forward – but I don’t give the reader a sense of place — so they can’t see the same ‘movie’ I see — they basically just see people talking.