Improving your Dialogue

There are rules or specifications that need to be followed when you write a story. Instead of discussing all of them I will list a couple.

Improving your Dialogue 

1. Read it Aloud.
2. Long Passages
3. Distinctive Dialogue
4. Each character has a voice
5. Get into the character.
6. exc..

Why are these important, one might ask, well I tell you why. Read anything out aloud will always increase your chances of getting the story right and to gain others perspective on your storytelling. Long passages are not always good, but necessary, sometimes the story needs them to explain what is going on in the story. Imagine the matrix without them... Distinctive dialogue also distinguishes characters from each other, no one wants the same protagonist in every story and antagonist, it just is boring. Also try to imagine the character as oneself, doing this will make you think more creatively and also limit the craziness of how much a character can contain. 

Jake H.

2-24-12