Comments on: The Seven Deadly Novel Writing Sins: Dialogue Disasters

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By: Stéphanie Noël

Stéphanie Noël — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:03:46 +0000

Great post. I think I’m guilty of some of the no-nos. I will have to be more careful 🙂

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:42:35 +0000

You covered everyhting here, such a great post!
I hate rereading the last few lines to determine who said what, it slows things down.
I write historical romance and so I have to remember to use the language they would have in their time (no okay in my diologue), while still making it easy to read.
Also congrats on reaching 400 followers, such an achivement!

By: Danyelle

Danyelle — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:52:01 +0000

Great post. Once a critter pointed it out, I’ve been trying to keep an eye on my sentence patterns. It really does make a difference. 🙂

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:16:17 +0000

What a great post! And just in time. I foolishly think that perhaps my story is almost finished… I shall go and give my dialogue another going over.

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:24:23 +0000

Thanks for this, Angela…especially like keeping in my the characters viewpoint when deciding how they will say something. And oh so yes on reading it out loud…

By: Vivian

Vivian — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:20:08 +0000

This is such a great reminder. Thanks for sharing this!

By: L.J. Boldyrev

L.J. Boldyrev — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:53:05 +0000

Great post! My biggest dialog issue is beats. Sometimes it’s difficult to know what to put there.

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:45:25 +0000

Thank you everyone for your great comments. It’s really helpful to hear what stage everyone is at, and what the common struggles are.

I think reading dialogue out loud is an excellent piece of advice as well–often our ‘ear’ hears the stiffness when our ‘eye’ does not.