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Two Exercises to help with Dialogue

Reblogged from The Story Bodyguard:

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If you read scripts by other writers, you will often find the same flaws that industry readers find. One of the shortcomings is flat dialogue. Boring dialogue is one of a script's elements that will stop a reader. He'll put down the script, possibly never to pick it up again.

Two exercises of writing in character voice can help you get in contact with the speech rhythms and vocabulary of a character.

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A couple of interesting ideas! I'm definitely going to try them.

About Nancy M. Griffis

Author and screenwriter who loves scifi/action/adventure/urban fantasy genres. I have two published novels, Mind Games and Eternal Investigations, as well as a short story published for charity called "Home Fires Burning." All are available through amazon.com and barnesandnobles.com.

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