Allison Symes's Blog - Posts Tagged "dialogue"
Reading Acrostic
R= Reading is wonderful and inspires further stories to be written.
E = Educational and entertaining - what is there not to like?
A = Animals, aliens, all sorts of characters end up being the heroes and villains in the stories.
D = Dialogue in books and stories is like overhearing an intriguing conversation where you have to find out what happens.
I = Imagination - reading fires this up considerably even if you don’t write yourself.
N = Novels, novellas, short stories, flash fiction, non-fiction, articles, books, magazines - there is something to suit you somewhere!
G = Great reading can cross centuries - there is no time limit on how long a book or story can be good for.
E = Educational and entertaining - what is there not to like?
A = Animals, aliens, all sorts of characters end up being the heroes and villains in the stories.
D = Dialogue in books and stories is like overhearing an intriguing conversation where you have to find out what happens.
I = Imagination - reading fires this up considerably even if you don’t write yourself.
N = Novels, novellas, short stories, flash fiction, non-fiction, articles, books, magazines - there is something to suit you somewhere!
G = Great reading can cross centuries - there is no time limit on how long a book or story can be good for.
Favourite Parts of a Story
Regardless of story genre, length, whether it is in a magazine or in a book, what would you say were your favourite parts to a story?
I love dialogue because when this is done well, it is like eavesdropping an interesting conversation. I know - that probably does say a great deal about me, doesn’t it?
But good dialogue will move the story on, have a good pace to it, and leave you wanting to “hear”/read more.
Description works for me when it conveys information I need to know in a story which can’t be shared any other way.
So yes I will need to know something about setting, for example, but I won’t necessarily need to know every last detail. I just need to know what is important.
So I would need to know there was a moor, say, but I don’t need to know exactly what the moor is made up of because I will have my own ideas about that. Earlier generations would have needed everything spelled out when people didn’t travel so much so wouldn’t necessarily know this.
Naturally writing flash fiction and short stories does tend to encourage what I call tight writing.
Narrative where the story is being moved on thanks to the narrator is another favourite of mine because you usually get a good pace here. You are shown what you need to see. Everything counts so you know you need to read this.
I’ve forgotten who it was who said “try not to write the bits people skip” but they had a point!
I love dialogue because when this is done well, it is like eavesdropping an interesting conversation. I know - that probably does say a great deal about me, doesn’t it?
But good dialogue will move the story on, have a good pace to it, and leave you wanting to “hear”/read more.
Description works for me when it conveys information I need to know in a story which can’t be shared any other way.
So yes I will need to know something about setting, for example, but I won’t necessarily need to know every last detail. I just need to know what is important.
So I would need to know there was a moor, say, but I don’t need to know exactly what the moor is made up of because I will have my own ideas about that. Earlier generations would have needed everything spelled out when people didn’t travel so much so wouldn’t necessarily know this.
Naturally writing flash fiction and short stories does tend to encourage what I call tight writing.
Narrative where the story is being moved on thanks to the narrator is another favourite of mine because you usually get a good pace here. You are shown what you need to see. Everything counts so you know you need to read this.
I’ve forgotten who it was who said “try not to write the bits people skip” but they had a point!
