How to Write a Dialogue – Awesome tips for Dialogue Writing
A dialogue literally means “talk between two people.” Dialogue writing enables the students to learn colloquial way of talking in English, and train them to express their thoughts in an easy and natural language.
Following are some guidelines for an impressive dialogue writing:
1. Write in a natural and colloquial language. Your sentences should not be formal and bookish. Colloquialism and slang should be used but not too often.
2. Do justice to your characters. It means they must behave and talk in a manner that is suitable for the field or profession they belong to. For example, a student must speak differently from a street hawker etc.
3. Your characters must be life-like. They must move, talk and behave in a manner as if a real human being does.
4. None of the characters should monopolize the conversation. It means all the characters must have strong and convincing ideas.
5. Your talk should be concentrated on the same given topic. Digression are the most undesirable in a dialogue.
6. Your chat must be brisk, rapid and logical with one argument leading to the next and/or counter argument.
7. Your setting must be according to the topic of the dialogue. For instance, never situate a dialogue on agriculture in a hospital or on exam in a cinema hall.
8. In a good dialogue the setting, the movements and appearance f the characters are visible within the body o a dialogue. However, these details can be given in brackets in the form of stage directions.
9. In real life, we sometimes interrupt the other speaker in what they are saying. Use of such techniques adds to the naturalness of the conversation. However, it should be used sparingly.
10. In the manner of real-life chat, your characters must sometimes answer a question in the form of a counter question.
11. Use of interjections, expressions, idioms, and proverbs also adds to the naturalness of conversation.
12. Though the language should as far as possible be colloquial, it should never be ungrammatical or low standard. The characters must speak good English.
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