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Originally Posted by Robin O'Neill
Real life conversations can be pretty boring.
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Yes indeedy. In fact, if you transcribe almost any real-life conversation it will be not only boring but almost unreadable, littered with ums and ahs, non sequiturs and grammatical errors. Writing good dialogue is a great test of a writer's skill. You have to make it
seem real, while paying careful attention to the order of words to avoid misleading the reader, and the choice of vocabulary and usage in dialogue is critical to establishing the speaker's character.
Dialogue is much faster and often more entertaining to read than descriptive prose, and if you can pull off a good story using mainly dialogue you should be onto a winner!