Dialogue and How affects a character and Story (Writers Rant)

I’ve finished reading another lovely book and it got me thinking about what makes a great book in my opinion. The Literature basis of what makes a good great is common knowledge. I think everyone knows them by heart really. Being able to captivate an audience, being able to write fluently and have a good plot story and it goes deeper than that.

All in all having a good story that can captivate and characters that we route for is the foundation of a good story but there is just one thing that we somehow miss between us all that somehow people forget and that is dialogue.

The moment a character explains how they feel and use poetic ways of saying it. The way two characters banter with each other or saying something for the first time. Good Dialogue makes you feel like you’re there, like you’re hearing everything for the first time and it is absolutely amazing. Think about it. You never know what someone is feeling until they say it out loud.

This also works for the book as well. For example the readers know how one character feels about a situation, the character has had internal monologues but the second character has no idea until finally he tells them and the impact of the dialogue between them is high because we know how one character feels about the situation and not how another feels about the same situation.

Now here comes the ranting part of this situation is some writers really overlook the power of dialogue and it pisses me off. You have two people tensions are high make one explode and say something and don’t just explain it and write simple words. I know some readers hate it when a character has long paragraphs of words but to be honest I adore it because it’s the characters life and the characters conflict. Yes you hear or more like read their thoughts but you’re like a fly on the wall. Everything is just as it is. But when they talk, when they open their mouth and express what you feel you realize that they really do feel passionate about something to the extent that they shout at another person and begin to sob.

And another thing would it kill people to mix things up. For Authors Dialogue is a plague on you if you don’t know how to do it correctly. There are different ways to write dialogue. The problem arises when as a writer you don’t know what type of dialogue best fits your way of writing and who you are as a writer. So if you like poetry or if you know how to use your words in a poetic manner then your dialogue would come out as complicated yet unique and throat provoking.

If you like puns and banter and such it will bleed out on to your character through dialogue. But having yes and no dialogues with some parts that do nothing for the all round plot of even character enhancement is not okay.

As a writer you cannot please everyone just the same as you cannot write everything. You have your own way or writing and your own genre. Some writers can try and do it all but they end up being not so good at it. A jack of all trades kind of situation.

Dialogue can be something that can make your book standout in ways that will shock you and draw so many people in so the next time you’re thinking about writing focus on your dialogue it will make a great difference.