![]() ![]() There may be cause for them to interrupt, speak over, speak at cross purposes. There may be instances where your dialogue’s subtext or context (more on these below) calls for characters not to actively listen to one another, of course. In a true conversation, people hear one another, respond. When somebody is engaged in ‘active listening’, they aren’t just waiting for their turn to speak. There are several terms in dialogue worth knowing as they crop up often in discussing this element of writing craft: Active listening: Dialogue is (usually) responsive Music: sometimes there is harmony (working together), other times discord (strife, heated conversation or disagreement). ![]() Pieces in a puzzle coming together: What different characters say may build up a gradual picture, for example an idea of the persona of a character who has not yet appeared in a story scene but has been spoken about by others.A dance: One speaker says one line, the other replies, and sometimes one person may lead, at other times, the other leads.A tennis or fencing match: Speakers may spar, score points, volley arguments or statements (and rebuttals to them) back and forth.Dialogue in writing is conversation between two or more people/animated voices (animated voices because it could be speech between a person and an inanimate object they personify, for example, an imaginary or supernatural voice, and so forth). ![]()
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