5 Tips to Write Great Dialogue and Monologues
Creativity can be a handy thing if you tend to get bored easily, and if you are a writer then the world can be on the tips of your fingers and you can create it in the way you wish. And just Spiderman has shared, "With great power comes great responsibility." You are to be held responsible if your characters don’t resonate with your audience. So, here are some tips that will allow you to keep it real, delicate, and vibrant for the masses. Without any readers, a writer would be worthless, so let your slide approach be the deciding factor whether you reach your audience or not. Before we dive into it, primarily dialogues have three purposes.
Distinguishes Different Characters of the Prose
It Concretes the Personality of a Character
Navigates the Plot and Navigates along with the lot
Whether you are writing a book or writing a script for a movie, dialogues are something that allows you to make your fictional world have words and the bridge between real and fictional smudges for everyone who reads the book or watches the movie.
1. Words Should Add Emotions
If you are into creative writing for a while then you must know how to convey emotion to your audience. If not, then learn how you can use punctuation and complete sentences to create a sense of bond. Learning when to use ‘three dots’ and when to leave the sentence incomplete would impact your audience the most, is very important. While you will always have the option to describe the situation further.
2. Character’s Approach to the Topic
Through your writing, you are shaping a character and you need to be very careful how the character might sound if you are not being too careful of being too juxtaposed with words and actions. To find the right parity to cater a character to your job and to do it properly you must find the right balance between describing the works of a character and how it is presented through dialogues. You can’t project accents but you surely add a colloquial approach to form the base of a character.
3. Understand Character Goals
If you are not alien to the Stephen King novel ‘The Shining’, then you should know that King has tried to keep the characters in their general forms for the first few chapters while he only showcased how these characters react in the simplest situations before he decided to through them a bunch of hurdles and nail-biting sequences. So, he hints at who becomes the killer who will have the most impressive survival instinct, and who turns out to be the most curious one.
4. Keep it Unpredictable
The renowned crime-fiction writer Agatha Christie is known to have the most “So-called” out-of-place and unpredictable endings in the history of crime fiction. And the reason behind that has been confessed by her. She said that her readers a too intelligent and before she could finish the episodically released novel the readers would mail her saying that they had found the killer. So, you can easily follow her steps and hardly introduce the killer early in your book, or mentioning ‘sighs’ and occasional pauses will help you to make a conversation between two characters interesting.
5. Pursue a Realistic Approach to Talking
If you think of a real scenario then you will see that not all of us are used to reply a “good morning” wish, with a “good morning to you too”, it’s mostly a smile with a nod. In day-to-day life, we don’t mechanically say, “I’m Fine” When someone asks “How are you” Most of the time we express ourselves rather than use words. So, when you open a conversation you don’t have to be mechanical about it, be free to add your emotions through words to make it real, reflective, and recognizable.
Dialogues are a huge part of a novel and if you are willing to pursue this profession then you must get your hands on making these dialogues resonate. Dialogues are like bricks and with these bricks, you will have to build the most profound foundation of your characters. So, choose your words properly and make sure that you keep things interesting and real in your book. Find the balance between work and action to create the most impressive outcome.
