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15251250 No.15251250 [Reply] [Original]

>have no idea how to write dialogue because i’m an autistic shut in who never talks to people

>> No.15251259

>>15251250
Dialogue's the easy part you mong.

>> No.15251262

>>15251250
Dialogue in books does not sound like real dialogue, so don't let it constraint you anon

>> No.15251269

>>15251250
that's the point of written dialogue anon
don't feel bad about it

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15251272

>>15251250
Just talk to yourself

>> No.15251280

That’s a great image

>> No.15251285

>>15251250
>not finding field recordings of taped unstructured conversations
>not stalking normies on snapchat or facebook stories to hear how natural cadences work, with all that unplanned discussion
>not reading transcripts to see how 'real speech' differs from stylistic written speech
>not understanding the motives, values, and cultural ecology of your characters so well well that they each have individual manners of speaking based on their views, how they perceive things, how they deal with conflict - all of which are different from the other characters.
You're right OP, they have no excuse.

>> No.15251298

>>15251250
go through SPOKEN CORPORA for realistic speech patterns.

>> No.15251302

>>15251298
and you'll see that they don't have much of a literary use.
realistic speech patterns are stupid on paper.
Better to get the gist and A E S T H E T I S E it.