Jabrosky
Banned
I have noticed that dialogue takes up a large proportion of my recent writing. One project is like 50% dialogue so far and another is almost 75%. I regard this as a problematic trend since I actually find writing dialogue a relatively tiresome exercise. It's not writing the actual dialogue lines that I don't like, it's breaking the passages up with brief mentions of body language and expressions to show the characters' emotional states. I don't want my dialogue scenes to read like stacks of quotes, yet at the same time there are only so many ways to describe the same emotions (and not all of them are immediately recognizable).
Furthermore, even if I have my dialogue broken up with expressions and what not, I think it's a bad sign that dialogue scenes predominate my writing, especially since I would prefer action and setting to drive my stories. Is there a way I could cut down on my dialogue?
Furthermore, even if I have my dialogue broken up with expressions and what not, I think it's a bad sign that dialogue scenes predominate my writing, especially since I would prefer action and setting to drive my stories. Is there a way I could cut down on my dialogue?