https://www.writerscookbook.com/too-much-dialogue/ Serving writers with all the ingredients they need to succeed Fri, 28 Aug 2020 10:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.writerscookbook.com/too-much-dialogue/#comment-27579 Fri, 28 Aug 2020 10:49:40 +0000 http://writing.asforums.net/?p=280#comment-27579 Honestly, I like dialogue while writing a novel. When there is not much of a dialogue in there I, sometimes, find myself needing more from the characters!

]]> https://www.writerscookbook.com/too-much-dialogue/#comment-11432 Sun, 22 Dec 2019 04:37:11 +0000 http://writing.asforums.net/?p=280#comment-11432 I find dialogue irritating when I read a novel. It appeals to me on the rare occasion,like when used in a letter addressing someone else . In Sylvia Plaths the Bell Jar and Leonora Carringtons The Hearing Trumpet, the dialogue was hilarious though,very witty and ironic with brutal honesty. I love that!
Dialogue can come across as phoney as so seldom is the truth spoken. It’s all noise and deception. Only when dialogue is used hesitantly with suspense and intrigue, like slowly uncovering a truth about something is it enjoyable. My opinion of course.

]]> https://www.writerscookbook.com/too-much-dialogue/#comment-94 Thu, 04 Jun 2015 18:54:10 +0000 http://writing.asforums.net/?p=280#comment-94 […] I love dialogue. It’s one of my favourite things to write. You can learn so much about people just from the words that they use. But there is such a thing as too much of it. […]

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