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Written by maljonic
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Sunday, 04 December 2005 |
Speech can enhance your stories in various ways. Here is a list of guidelines for accomplishing this effectively:
1. Through dialogue the reader is most likely to gain an overall impression
of a story.
2. Dialogue promises action, characters and interest for the reader.
3. Everyday spoken dialogue is too imprecise to be of any use in fiction.
4. Written dialogue should be carefully constructed to achieve its purpose.
5. Dialogue can be used to aid characterisation and should remain consistent
to the characters throughout the story.
6. Dialogue is often used to set the scene without slowing down the story.
7. New phases in the plot can be introduced dramatically and unexpectedly through
careful use of dialogue.
8. The mood or atmosphere of a situation can be introduced by dialogue.
9. Information can be conveyed by dialogue in a lively and interesting way.
10. Dialogue can be used to increase drama or suspense at critical points in
the story.
11. Dialogue should succeed in advancing the plot in some way.
12. Humour is a difficult response to aim for, but can be achieved through dialogue.
13. Dialogue can be used to indicate a period in history for the setting of
a story.
14. A local or international flavour can be introduced by the careful use of
accent and dialect into a character's speech.
15. Slang can give your stories an element of immediacy but loses its modernity
over a relatively short period.
16. You should adopt a structured and organised approach in order to write convincing
dialogue.
17. The setting out of dialogue has certain rules and conventions that you should
obey.
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