Thread 24850773

Writing dialogue is hard

>>24850773 (OP)
literally the easiest part of writing, prose is hardest

>>24850776
dialogue is prose but i get what you mean

>>24850776
descriptions are easier - you either are good at it or not, and it's easier to improve through osmosis or repetition. But in dialogue you have so many things to keep in mind: the setting, the feelings of the characters, their movement and expressions, not to convey too many sentiments neither show too much, have a different character voice etc.

"show, don't tell" is much harder in dialogue. I'm not even going to delve into accents and dialects in historical fiction.

>>24850773 (OP)
why would you make salah wearing a weapon? and the takbir is not made kneeling

>>24851060
jean-leon gerome was a master of orientalism, though i imagine he only had limited resources and context to work with.

>>24851065
those kufir animals should not be painting Muslims or even thinking about us. Sick animals they are, son of whores

>>24851102
ok, haha! thank you!

My mind is so bent and slapped silly, I legit need to go back through K-12 if I ever want to write in full paragraphs again.

>>24850773 (OP)
Dialogue is the only thing that comes easy to me. I can get 2000 words of dialogue done in the amount of time it takes me to write 500 words of description. My stories are very dialogue heavy as a result.

>>24851102
Blow it out your ass

>>24850773 (OP)
I find it depressingly difficult. How the hell am I supposed to fool the reader into not thinking that I am just playing dolls with text?

>>24852402
You can't do that, your only hope is to make the doll's play interesting enough to read about

>>24850773 (OP)
"Writing dialogue is hard" sighed Pufta
"iz no' so 'ard me lord!" chimed Grape, merrily he prattled on. Minutes passed, and when Pufta awoke from his daydream to hear the dischevelled gimp still prattling on, he was overcome with indignation, still, he let the poor servant speak, if not for it made him proud to serve his master "For jus' t'other day me 'n' lil' ole Wenzly wrote us a luvely lil dialogue sir, wants us to reads it for ya?"
"No, Grape, that's quite alright, I just mean to say-" but before he could fin-
"Mean to say the muse is dead m'lord? Killed her dead? Strangled the goose and now out of juice, me lord?"
"No, not at all that... what I mean to say-"
"What sire?"
"Oh shut up you impetuous slave!" and he smacked Grape hard across the back of his head, "it's just that writing dialogue is so dull and laborious, no one really wants to read about some made up fool yapping about some made up nonsense... I'm no silver tongued fox meself, and yet I am to carve a man out of clay and give him charisma?! hrumph! although I suppose one needn't actually write everything they say... don't you suppose... Grape...?" he looked over at the poor sod, face down in the dirt, and was about to give him a good kick in the rear, when he realized poor Grape was sound asleep, causing Pufta's heart to swell, so much so he nearly fell over and died.

>>24850778
Dialogue is manifestly not prose.

>>24852372
I can do it that too but the quality of my dialogue suffers because when you write dialogue quickly it's hard to keep up with all the nuances

>>24850773 (OP)
“Writing dialogue is hard,” Anon A said.
“Literally the easiest part of writing; prose is the hardest,” Anon B said.
“Dialogue is prose but I get what you mean,” Anon C said.
“Descriptions are easier,” Anon A said. “You either are good at it or not, and it's easier to improve through osmosis or repetition. But in dialogue you have so many things to keep in mind: the setting, the feelings of the characters, their movement and expressions, not to convey too many sentiments neither show too much, have a different character voice etc. ‘Show, don't tell’ is much harder in dialogue. I'm not even going to delve into accents and dialects in historical fiction.”

>>24850776
What about poetic dialogue, dialogue that is not only conversation, but is poetry in itslef?

Think on Shakespeare. One needs to be able to balance extremely dense and complex poetry with speechlike phrases.

Also, one needs to create different kinds of poetic minds in different characters, basically forcing oneself to become several different poets.