DIALOGUE

WHAT IS DIALOGUE?

• Dialogue is a set of statements or questions built as a live conversation.
• Dialogue can be between 2 or more people and in some cases may be between a person and themself.

FIRST FIVE FACTS

• Through each character you create, you figure out little by little what they say and do.
• Show compassion for a villain if you have one. Even a villain has a heart and a hero has flaws.
• Do not include too much unusual dialect, it will be too difficult for readers.
• Dialogue should be more dramatic than in real life.
• Characters should be distinguishable by their voice and rhythm.

SECOND FIVE FACTS

• You should be able to learn a character's heart through what they say.
• Try to make conversations believable and not too forced, more fluent.
• Make your dialogue well formatted and mature, if it is childish, it will ruin the story's content.
• Include a character's conversation as well as their unspoken thoughts so the readers get a better understanding of the character that other figures in the story do not.
• Try to make each character sound different from the rest.

*Writing Activity*
Write a conversation between two or more characters and improve upon it with what was in the power point.