Scott Ryan
Acolyte
First post - sorry if it's old hat, so to speak.
I, like many people on here, am I attempting to put a story down in the pages of a book (or a Kindle) for the first time. I built my world, fleshed out my characters, wrote an outline and now I'm 84 pages deep in what is increasingly looking like about a 600 page book haha anyways, I just discovered this forum and wanted to simply vent - dialogue is hard! Getting into the mindset of each character as I write is something that I guess probably just takes practice but does anyone else have this issue? I find myself almost having to physically step away with each speaker in order to find where said character is at. Then must try to avoid having them sound like a cheeseball! Argh! Cool site, glad I found it. Hope everyone is doing well!
I, like many people on here, am I attempting to put a story down in the pages of a book (or a Kindle) for the first time. I built my world, fleshed out my characters, wrote an outline and now I'm 84 pages deep in what is increasingly looking like about a 600 page book haha anyways, I just discovered this forum and wanted to simply vent - dialogue is hard! Getting into the mindset of each character as I write is something that I guess probably just takes practice but does anyone else have this issue? I find myself almost having to physically step away with each speaker in order to find where said character is at. Then must try to avoid having them sound like a cheeseball! Argh! Cool site, glad I found it. Hope everyone is doing well!