Hi everyone. Me again! While working through the list of recommended reads so helpfully provided by some of you, I've decided to start a new ms too (when inspiration strikes and all that!). It's in the first person but I've noticed there's a lot of dialogue in it. Does anyone have any thoughts on dialogue and how much is too much. It reads ok to me, for now.
Thanks in advance :)
Is much than less
Thankyou Lorraine and Jimmy :)
As always, I disagree with some of the "rules" that others have stipulated.
How do you indicate to your reader that Character X is a boring windbag if you don't make X' speeches boring and long?
How make Character Y obviously shy/nervous/hesitant without including "er", "um", "you know", etc.
The craft is to include boring windbag speech without making the BOOK boring.
Diary Of A Nobody (George and Weedon Grossmith) has a stunningly boring character as its NARRATOR. And yet it's a masterpiece of humorous fiction.
IMHO, dialogue SHOULD be English (French, Spanish, etc.) as it's spoke. Within reason.
Well, um, that's just, you know, my opinion.