![]() ![]() ![]() Very simple mistake and very easy to avoid (or correct), but it does have drastic effects. If you have heavy narrative and long paragraphs, then suffice to say, I won’t want to spend my time reading your novel (and neither would anyone else). That is one of the main dialogue don’ts many editors see on manuscripts.Įven if your book is published, and your writing style is not exceptional, then people will put your book down and say it’s boring. Try to use dialogue to move the plot forward, don’t stall it. Of course, some situations may require heavy narrative, but you must always try to balance it up later by including dialogue. But for normal people who want to maximize their chances of getting published, it’s a bad idea, and I don’t in the least recommend it. If you have a riveting plot or characters, you may get away with too much narrative or too much dialogue. Read this great dialogue writing tips post. As I said previously in Writing Tip: The Importance of Word Count, things like word count, narrative and dialogue are secondary if you haven’t even got a good story. I personally like dialogue-driven books way more than I like books which use heavy narrative, but there are separate audiences for the two categories, and there are people who will read both if the story is good. Ideally, dialogue should be used to supplement narrative. But for most, narrative is required for heavy description, simply because in narrative one writes in the author’s tone, but when one is writing dialogue one must write how a certain character talks. Your dialogue must never be used for exposition. ![]() Unnecessary dialogue, now that’s a different thing, a different kettle of fish. Have you ever read such a book? Me neither - the publishers don’t want to publish a book which readers won’t read, and boring dialogue is high on the list of unpopular writing.ĭialogue is good. Then there are those who overdo dialogue. At which point your story looks like an essay which no one wants to read, rather than an amazing novel. It’s just page after page of narrative, how they did this, their journey, their perils, the people they met, the surroundings, and so on. Too much of a good thing is usually a bad thing, and it applies here. Talking in fiction writing is known as dialogue, and narrating or describing anything is known as narrative. If you’ve got a set of characters, they have to converse, i.e., talk. But have you heard of narrative and dialogue? If you’ve got a story, you’ve got to narrate it. Subplots, conflict, POV, characters, you name it. In the world of fiction writing, there are many things to explore. ![]()
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