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Originally Posted by Ea
With dialogue the author has to find the right balance between what is readable, what works on the page, and actual speech. Just like theatre and film dialogue it can't be like the way people actually talk, but has to pretend. It's a fine line to walk.
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I was recently in a largish stage production, and I was given some lines, not many, but 1 or 2 in few scenes. The leads of course had pages and page of lines. Being that I only had a few I was able to watch how the leads worked through their scripts. The script was written in correct English, the type that would get you good grades in school BUT it was nothing like anyone talks. So every line in the play at some point a long the line got changed to more normal speech. They kind that you would get bad grades for in English papers. Dialog needs to fall closer to what people speak, but your doing it in writing.
