Tell me true.

I love dialogue. I love writing it. I love reading it. I love listening to it whether it’s in my classroom, the hallway, on TV, or walking down the streets of NYC. I love the words, the slang, the phrases, the rhythm, the cadence, the whole hidden conversations in our conversations.

I love the variety of purposes dialogue can serve from exploring characterization to describing scenes and characters to giving us information to further the story. And when I write, I always write the dialogue first. If I can’t hear the dialogue in a scene, I can’t write anything else until I can.

Roz over at Nail Your Novel has a great post here on dialogue. Check it out and tell me: How do you feel about dialogue as an element of your story? How do you use it? Do you eavesdrop on people around you? Is it easy for you to hear when you write?

TGIF

Once again, another Friday. The end of another long, brutal week. My brain is fried and I cannot seem to form coherent thoughts. I must be getting old.

Anyway, every once in a while I write for a challenge, and this is what resulted from one of the last ones I did.

111 words of dialogue only. :)
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“This is your fault.”

“Is not.”

“Is too.”

“Is not.”

“Fine. It’s not your fault.”

“See? That wasn’t so hard, was it?”

“Not nearly as hard as this.”

“Yeah, well…”

“Well, what? This was your idea.”

“My idea?

“Forced Family Fun. Or don’t you remember saying Come on babe, the kids will love it?"

“Yeah, well…”

Well, what?”

“On second thought, that was really a bad idea.”

“Not nearly as bad as your last one.”

“Don’t remind me.”

“Need I remind you there’s a video?”

“Nope.”

“Or that said video has been tucked away for safekeeping?”

“But we are still stealing it, aren’t we?”

“Of course we are. Right after this.”