Carpo

Dialogue is harder for me. Sometimes I feel like I'm pushing a dead car uphill in a blizzard when I need to use dialogue to get from one scene to another. Other times writing dialogue is only mildly more difficult than writing description.

However, I find that my dialogue usually doesn't need as many revisions to sound right when compared to my descriptions. I'll take well over an hour to write 200 words of dialogue but I'll only need to edit once or twice. I'll do 500 words of description in the same amount of time, but I usually have to edit several times and sometimes rewrite the whole thing before I'm satisfied.

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Using excessive adjectives and ten dollar words is good writing in the same way mastubation is sex. You may enjoy it, but no one has any clue what you're so excited about.

CreativeThinker

Overall, I think I'm better at description, but dialogue is easier for me. The problem with description is that either I have way too much, or not enough. With dialogue, all I have to do is get to the point.

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Quantum Loser

I find writing descriptions uncomfortable.

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Stewart

I think if you rely on dialogue too much then your characters will never be as well conceived as they could be. Dialogue is only a small part of characterisation; the greater part is how you describe that person - their thoughts, their choices, and their actions.

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