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Jayatee Bhattacharya, Lovely Professional University Unit 4: Dialogue Writing

unit 4: Dialogue Writing notes

contents

Objectives
Introduction
4.1 Concept of Dialogue Writing
4.1.1 Meaning of Dialogue
4.1.2 Ways and Process of Writing Dialogue
4.1.3 Process of Writing Dialogues

4.2 Dialogue Writing in Formal Situations
4.3 Dialogue Writing Based on Informal and Regularly Occurring Situations
4.4 Summary
4.5 Keywords

4.6 Review Questions
4.7 Further Readings

objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
l Explain the concept of dialogue writing

l Discuss the guidelines to write effective dialogues
l Write dialogues based on formal situations
l Write dialogues based on informal and regularly occurring situations

introduction

Next time you are on a train or sitting on a bench in a park, just listen to two people talking. They
will cut each other all the time, they’ll say “um” and “er” a lot, they’ll jump from one topic to
another and back again with no warning. The conversation between them can be termed as a
dialogue.
Writing dialogue takes skill, but it’s not so difficult to improve poor dialogue and use good
dialogue to accelerate the pace of a story, create tension, deepen characterization, and move the
plot forward. If dialogue does not accomplish all this, it has no place in the story. Strong verbal
exchanges between characters heighten reader interest. When characters talk, readers listen, and
the characters take on qualities of real people. The writer’s challenge is to sustain this illusion
of reality. Anything that reminds readers of words on a page must be edited out so readers will
think about the characters, not the writing.

Writing dialogue isn’t about replicating a real speech. It’s about giving an impression of it and
also of improving upon it. In this unit you will learn about dialogue writing based on formal
situations, informal setting and day-to-day situations.

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