Thread: writing dyminic convestations

Im sitting here in panera bread working on my book and I am frustrated cause im finding the conversation im writeing between the carachtors dull. Im writing a book for tweens about middle school and the conversation has to be better then who do you have for first pieord. I want to write chartores that are dymonic and can be loved and my story idea should be awsome and relevent but its the getting there thats tough. any suggestions on how to write converstations that are intreasting even when there not to terriabley relvent to the plot would be so helpful.

A little off topic, but I really had a hard time reading your post. This is a writing forum, and as such, we expect proper english and well structured sentences.

But no matter, if you are thinking of dynamic conversations, you're thinking of one of two things: things that move the plot forward, or things that bring some emotion to the reader (like humor). Keep things short and down to the point, and instead of making many lines of dialogue shifting constantly between characters, make fewer but more remarkable lines that keeps us interested and allows us to identify who's talking with ease. Avoid small talk unless necessary for characterization, but if possible, leave it implicit. Avoid overly long speeches, or characters telling another something they already know (this is called info-dump). Give unique tones to each character, but don't go over the top --keep it subtle unless it's done for humor's sake.

If you read many books, you'll soon notice that characters don't really speak like they would in real life, and that's because real life chatter is trivial, often clumsy, and hardly interesting. That said, dialogue has to feel "realistic", so they must say things that they would in real life. This, while contradicting, is pretty much what it is; write dialogue that's vibrant and unique, but not too far fetched to feel like a 16th century play (unless you're writing one of course).

I recommend you take a look at this thread: http://www.writingforums.com/literar...ut-flying.html . It has several works written almost entirely out of dialogue.

If your conversation has no purpose, why would it be interesting?

Maybe the problem is the reason they are sitting there talking instead of what they are saying?