Dialogue help please

[YaoiHuntressE]

I hope I'm not too late, but here's a little tip that's helped me. Is to record while I read out loud my story's dialoge (bonus if you do the voices and emmotions) and then play it back. Anything that sounds unnatural or such you can change.

 

[slyc_willie]

To everyone who responded. I feel a lot better about it now. If you folks had any idea how much time I spent taking thier dialogue from a casual way of speaking to what it is now, you'd all laugh at me.

Now I had started that on the follow ups to that story and will go back and change it to the way it was.

Oh yeah, so it's normal to hear their voices when you're writing? I swear sometimes I can hear them (my characters) speak. Especially in the huge thing I wrote and need to revisit soon. Or am I just nuts?

Thanks again.

MJL

Shit, sometimes my characters wake me up, or worse yet, don't let me sleep at all. Their voices prattle around in my head like a dozen conversations at a cocktail party I really didn't want to go to in the first place.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that creative people have to be at least a little crazy. You ever meet Stephen King? I have. He's just as creepy as he seems. Pretty cool guy, though.