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Prompt
If you’ve ever transcribed an interview, you know this: Most people speak in half-sentences, keep interrupting themselves with “uh” sounds and say “like” and “you know” astonishingly often. Nobody wants to read that. If dialogue feels too artificial, on the other hand, it yanks us out of the story.
In summary: It’s a good idea to imitate spoken language, but not too well. Dialogue is tricky. Yet it can do so much! It advances the plot, shows characters through their voice and conveys emotion as well as information.
Write a dialogue that climaxes–and ends–in ten phrases.
Take two characters – they can be characters you’ve known for a long time or ones you just plucked out of thin air – and give each of them five lines. Use this conversation to show your reader how these two feel without them ever stating it directly.
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For this prompt, one line means one statement. While brevity is almost always a good thing, you are not confined to standard lines.
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- Here are the details for the writing season: Turning Tales
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