Let’s Talk About Dialogue

Dialogue is crucial for character development and will ultimately make or break a story. Let’s talk about it!

Vernacular! I jes ‘appen to love this wee bit o’ aprostrophying to ‘elp spice up yer dialogue and draw yer readers into tha setting, but the meaning soon gets drownded in translation if ya ken what I mean. Vernacular can be a very useful clue to the speaker’s country of origin or level of education, but let’s be careful not to overload readers as I likely did in my example.