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boxoftheskyking:
Do you ever just realize that if you wrote a scene by copying down what gets said in your house verbatim, you’d probably get torn apart for unrealistic dialogue?
Oh, this and things like names. My day job involves a lot of online order entry and some of the names I get– today i had a dude named Joey Biscotti. I shit you not. I’m like, no way is that his real name. We figure he’s in the Witness Protection Program.
Or like, how in any given friend group half of the dudes are named Dave and you know three Danielles and a Danyell. Like. You couldn’t do that in fiction, you just couldn’t.
I read a thing somewhere, the person was listening to surveillance tapes and reflecting on how actual real dialogue is so fucking stupid, you could not put that into a work of fiction, it would be incomprehensible.
I sometimes nod to this by having dialogue not actually follow– one of the speakers is reacting to the other’s tone not words, etc.– but that’s so damn hard. It’s way easier if you write it snappy and readable. You know?
boxoftheskyking:
Do you ever just realize that if you wrote a scene by copying down what gets said in your house verbatim, you’d probably get torn apart for unrealistic dialogue?
Oh, this and things like names. My day job involves a lot of online order entry and some of the names I get– today i had a dude named Joey Biscotti. I shit you not. I’m like, no way is that his real name. We figure he’s in the Witness Protection Program.
Or like, how in any given friend group half of the dudes are named Dave and you know three Danielles and a Danyell. Like. You couldn’t do that in fiction, you just couldn’t.
I read a thing somewhere, the person was listening to surveillance tapes and reflecting on how actual real dialogue is so fucking stupid, you could not put that into a work of fiction, it would be incomprehensible.
I sometimes nod to this by having dialogue not actually follow– one of the speakers is reacting to the other’s tone not words, etc.– but that’s so damn hard. It’s way easier if you write it snappy and readable. You know?
