By
Lanee’ Blunt
Dialogue
is important when writing a novel and is a subtle writing device that the
writer can use. It has the ability to authenticate and build what you are
saying. Dialogue when written correctly will add depth to your characters and move
fiction forward.
Express
Insights
It
can be used for giving insight into a character. Dialogue when used properly
helps you describe situations sometimes better than description and exposition.
The character’s speech will carry more impact than if the writer narrated the
scene. Sometimes the character can explain it better than the writer, so don’t
step in the way.
Believable
You
have spent a lot of time setting up the character and the setting. The dialogue
can make or break the novel. Always stay in character and they must speak in a
manner determined by their educational, economic and ethnic origins. In real
life, if a nurse is going home after her long shift and saying goodnight to her
patient, she may say, “Yo, its Friday night time to party!” That may be her
true way of speaking every day to her patients. In fiction writing—most nurses
are more believable if they say, “I’ll see you Monday, Mrs. Simms.” In fiction
you must use dialogue that is compatible with the education level of the
character.
Dialogue
is used to affirm the believability of the character and offers information
that furthers the situation of the story.
Reference:
Leonard
Bishop; Dare to Be a Great Writer; Writer’s Digest
