Sunday, April 25, 2010

Toolbox: Dialog

  • Tag to let us know who is speaking (if needed)
  • Broken phrasing (you talk in complete sentences all the time? Doubt it)
  • Interact with the surroundings while a conversation is happening (people don't usually just sit/stand there while they talk. They cough, adjust their glasses, sip coffee, lean against something... if they really are just standing there while they talk, maybe one of your characters has to pee. How do they get that point across without being rude?)
  • Are there words/phrases your character won't say?
  • Connect in disconnected ways ("Check out this screen-cap!" "Fuck, you crashed the internet!" *totally related in my house, but the untrained eye wouldn't get it*)
  • Internal monologue vs. external
  • Find questions to ask about objects
  • Manipulation of desires
  • describe!
  • Don't forget setting
  • Have external world break up dialog
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