Five techniques to write dialogue.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Welcome to Writer's Theory. I'm James Winterthorn, and I'm focused on helping writers tell their stories and find their voices.
In this video I share 5 techniques that I recommend for writing dialogue. Dialogue is very important for writing fiction. Mastering it is imperative to our journey as writers.
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I know you said it sounds obvious to use the words of your characters to move your story forward, but I don't know that I had thought about it like that before. It is very excellent advice, and I won't be able to write dialogue now without hearing that in my head!
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I'll be listening to this as soon as I'm out of the house for the evening! Just stumbled upon your channel a few days ago and consider this a great source of information and guidance. Thanks so much!
I'm glad to provide some value. Thanks for watching!
James I'm on the process of editing my draft for my first novel. About 85K words and 16 chapters! Gonna put some of your tips into consideration! Wish me luck!
Congrats on drafting a novel! Editing is definitely a process. I'm sure you'll do great.
I won't use tags when there's quick back and forth, or if the person talking is taking an action in the same paragraph. Example:
John walked into his therapist's room for the first time.
She gestured for him to sit. "Please."
John sat down. "Thanks."
These are good examples of when it's clear who is speaking. Thanks for sharing.
People watching is the best. People listening...now that's not something you hear very often.
Thank you for bringing up the dialogue tags. I just read 'The Sun Also Rises,' and I have to say it drove me a little nuts that three people could be talking and I have no idea who's saying what because dialogue tags were left off in many instances. I haven't read much Hemingway and I know it was his first full length novel, so maybe this was less of an issue in later works.