Meaningless dialog- nothing
closes up my book faster. I am not a big writer, or reader, of dialogue, and
when it does not work, I find a new book.
I have tried to review, and/or
edit three different projects for people in the past week and they all fell victim
to bad or meaningless dialog. The first tried to be so regional that it was
nearly impossible to read. I spend time in Louisiana every fall and people do
not talk like her Louisianan’s. The two other projects, both from the same
gentlemen were rife with meaningless dialogue.
The, “hey what’s going on,”
“Not much.”
“How ‘bout you.”
“Nothin’”
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Maybe that is why I skip most of
the dialogue, hard to write, hard to read.
1 comment:
Nice photo! Sometimes that type of dialogue sneaks in, but I try to delete it.
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