Post by account_disabled on Dec 24, 2023 5:28:19 GMT
Some time ago I had serious problems with how to write the dialogues of the characters in a story, so much so that my stories were almost always "silent". I have read many stories in which the characters are very present, without saying anything. Some Lovecraft stories, for example, which worked very well. What puzzled me was the lack of naturalness of the dialogue . A person who speaks must be natural, that is, real. He must give the impression that what he says flows, as it flows in everyday reality, as if we were present while he speaks. The problem, therefore, lies in the acting of the characters . The characters must indeed act, as in a film, but it must not be understood that they are acting.
We must have the impression that those characters are alongside us, that they are real people. Try to remember some local television series. I happened to see some scenes and I immediately noticed - in addition to the poor level of acting - the lack of naturalness of the dialogues. The same goes for some American TV series, not to mention Latin American soap operas. In many cases the Special Data dialogues were even "forced", as if they wanted to imitate something they had already heard. If in a famous film with famous actors those dialogues, those phrases worked, then they will work in my cheap TV show. How to make the characters in a story talk to each other? Now my stories are in dialogue. Now I no longer have those problems I had until last year. Whether they are also well communicated is another matter.
The dialogues, however, are there and they seem natural to me. A dialogue must first be written in one's mind . It must be thought about and listened to. How to make a character ask a question? Think about the character, first, about his cultural level, about the situation he is experiencing at that moment, about his emotional state, about who he is facing. And the same goes for whoever has to answer that question. Listening to the dialogue in your head helps make it flow more smoothly and naturally. Reciting that dialogue out loud makes you better recognize its gaps. I imagine my characters as if they were actually acting on a film set. It doesn't mean lack of modesty, Hollywood certainly doesn't even know I exist, it means portraying them fully in their context. Seeing them with your own eyes, or rather with those of your mind, and hearing them speak.
We must have the impression that those characters are alongside us, that they are real people. Try to remember some local television series. I happened to see some scenes and I immediately noticed - in addition to the poor level of acting - the lack of naturalness of the dialogues. The same goes for some American TV series, not to mention Latin American soap operas. In many cases the Special Data dialogues were even "forced", as if they wanted to imitate something they had already heard. If in a famous film with famous actors those dialogues, those phrases worked, then they will work in my cheap TV show. How to make the characters in a story talk to each other? Now my stories are in dialogue. Now I no longer have those problems I had until last year. Whether they are also well communicated is another matter.
The dialogues, however, are there and they seem natural to me. A dialogue must first be written in one's mind . It must be thought about and listened to. How to make a character ask a question? Think about the character, first, about his cultural level, about the situation he is experiencing at that moment, about his emotional state, about who he is facing. And the same goes for whoever has to answer that question. Listening to the dialogue in your head helps make it flow more smoothly and naturally. Reciting that dialogue out loud makes you better recognize its gaps. I imagine my characters as if they were actually acting on a film set. It doesn't mean lack of modesty, Hollywood certainly doesn't even know I exist, it means portraying them fully in their context. Seeing them with your own eyes, or rather with those of your mind, and hearing them speak.