It is perfectly reasonable to have a damn talky first draft. You don’t know everything about your story or your characters yet, but you’re sketching in scenes in the order and direction of the plot. So you take a shortcut and have your characters sit down and talk about what you know is important to…
Read moreannerocious: ch3000: script readers + everyone i speak to: dont put more than 2 pages of dialogue produced scripts i read: 6 pages of non stop dialogue no action. Snagged. Yes, it’s true that some produced scripts violate rules designed to assist budding screenwriters. The reason for this one is that it’s HARD to write…
Read moreThis is the kind of impact you can have when you are inventive about what you can communicate without using dialogue that explains directly to the reader.
Read moreHow to Dialogue. Dialogue is about character, not plot. Also, DJ is ENORMOUS.
Read moreEvery choice of words in a dialogue must reflect the character. Joko Anwar (via quotewhorequotes) How to dialogue.
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Read moreHow to dialogue. How to character. This does not happen in an idle discussion as a philosophical observation, it happens in a high conflict scene of personal and professional confrontation.
Read moreHow to dialogue. In a spec, this exchange would be a page and a half long, with Mal and Jayne stating many facts at each other. This is what direct conflict looks like. And it’s funny, too.
Read moreLIE YOUR WAY TO BETTER DIALOGUE
Think about when you tell the truth. The circumstances under which you wouldn’t bother to polish it up even a little bit. Think about when you lie. The reasons you lie. The person you’re lying to. You can ramp up your dialogue by finding the relative drama on a sliding scale of truth in a…
Read moreHow to dialogue. How to character. How to comedy.
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