I'm an SF&F author, and I have a name for where the genre is right now, and it's "shit hole" BECAUSE what 99% of people are writing is the exact opposite of vibrant and dangerous. I'm not at all excited by it. Want to interview me?https://twitter.com/TimClarePoet/status/1052922256219930625 …
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so instead of "As you know, Bob, the star drive takes 48 hours to recharge." try "Bob, I need the star drive again in 24 hours." / "That's impossible." / "No it's not, you did it in 36 hours once before" / "That was different; we had XYZ." / "You're sand-bagging me!" etc
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My rule is similar to Morlock's. I call that "ping-pong" dialog. Have the answer be 30 degrees off from the question. Close enough to follow, but not so close that the reader is lulled to sleep.
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Yeah. It's called Maid & Butler Dialogue.
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