I realized recently I’m growing increasingly unwilling to read books without significant dialogue. This could be a side effect of my profession, dialoguing for 10+ hours a day, but I find myself drawn to getting to know characters through their mannerisms and turns of phrase.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
Dialogue-heavy books tend to be (or at least feel) faster paced too. You can also be more economical with words & convey info faster via dialogue, in many cases, than you could through exposition.
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Replying to @YakovMerkin @TheBrometheus
Honestly, I start skimming. Moving exposition to dialogue just makes stilted Maid and Butler dialogue, and so much of today's dialogue is content-free. Each line has to matter.
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An overdose on mannerisms and turns of phrase without narrative purpose (see: comics) has had the other effect. Talk is cheap, what is the character doing instead of telling me what they are.
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Replying to @ArchivistPulp @YakovMerkin
Yeah, I don’t mean like this. I mean ongoing genuine characterization that’s substantial and enjoyable. That’s become my preference.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @YakovMerkin
It shocked me how much action John Ringo implies in dialogue. Entire set pieces and finales in nothing but dialogue. But everything has to have meaning to do so. It is not a skill I have.
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Nor I. Yet.
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