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another lovely 26 minutes of yapping if you have the time energy and attention span for this you have my highest praise <3 i made these vids quite long ago so recently I've also really liked to play with leaving things unsaid, or letting the eyes or expressions do the talking, plus with smut scenes (dirty talk) I usually come up with at least 3/4 alternative sentences as you have seen from the polls! it helps to keep thinking of different replies for the same question, it really stimulates you to become more creative!at some point i say "text fics" i mean messenger/socmed fics, jsyk!!Also, there's a point where I talk about 'personality shaping information' and just wanted to add that in dialogue you can really show this. Why is Jimin saying all these harsh things to Jeongguk about his mom in SUPG in chapter 5? -> he's projecting his own mommy issues, but you don't know that yet until chapters later so it makes you curious,,, I love that a lot about dialogue! making the reader curious

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How I Write Dialogue

text fics means messenger fics, social media fics, sorry if that's unclear!

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Bub 🫧

Yayyyyyy a new videoooo of my fav yapper

Bub 🫧

DIaloUge~ so cute

Rosie

big yapper allleeertttt

Sasha

as an editor, I love hearing authors talk about this kind of stuff and favorite parts of writing/the process!

Rosie

thank you, i hope you liked my phone call at the end too <3

Rosie

ahhhh it's so cool that you're an editor, what do you think about dialogue?? what are things you like and dislike?

a__defghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Your friend’s voice sounds a lot like my friend’s voice so i was a bit taken aback by that lmaoo😭

Rosie

REALLY?? what if it’s the same friend

Sasha

I love love love dialogue! The only thing I might love more is body language, if I had to compare them both at their absolute best. Probably because I’m obsessed with how they affect the balance of tone and mood in a single scene. I also just like when either of the two tell you something about a character without them explicitly saying it. I prefer shorter dialogue. And I guess the only thing I would say I dislike is when it feels really unnatural because it takes me out of my immersion. For example, what you said about speeches (though there’s sometimes a place for pretty long dialogue, like if a character is angry and ranting or sad and sharing a story). The key is knowing how to weave in bits of narrative, action, or thoughts in between (from the speaker or another character). You do a great job at immersing readers!! I’ve been hooked on SUPG haha

Rosie

Yesss I looove that too! I want to become better at showing not telling in that sense, I think the mannerisms can teach so much 😭 I have actually only recently watched a video about the narrative/action/thoughts distinction and it has really helped a lot with writing! So I’m really happy to see you mentioning it now 🥹🥹 I still struggle a lot with finding that right balance, I tend to focus on actions most, then thoughts and I really let narrative kind of slip through my fingers so trying to become better at that part!! Since I don’t like being descriptive I kind of minimalise narration hahaha thank you so much! I know it’s a weird question so feel free to ignore but if you had a tip or tips for me to better my writing I’d loooove to know 🥹🩷

koompi

You are absolutely gorgeous omgggg 😮

Sasha

No worries, not a weird question at all! Wall of text incoming… 😅 My main suggestion has almost nothing to do with grammatical rule, and most to do with flow and tone (again, I know). But I recommend playing around with punctuation more! It really affects the way certain lines land. For example, the “soft pause” of a comma (“,”) vs. the “hard pause” of an em dash (“—”) vs. the “hard stop” of a period (“.”). This is more of a small note, and I’m not sure how well this comes across without examples, but it can have really big effects on how things are emphasized all throughout the manuscript because of intent. In the same way repetition can be a strong tool if it’s purposeful, but damaging if it isn’t. Narrative can be really helpful for both plot and immersion, but stylistically, if you use less narrative where other authors would use more, that’s more than okay. As long as it doesn’t negatively impact something else. Experimenting is always good though, and you can take it scene by scene 😊 For show vs. tell, I always recommend this book to my authors: “Understanding Show, Don’t Tell: And Really Getting It” by Janice Hardy. It explains what exactly it is and how to use it, but also provides lots of examples in context. But yeah! I don’t mind offering any advice I have! If you want, I can dm you my email. Let me know!

Rosie

oh thank youuuu :(((((( <3<3<3

Rosie

thank youuu!! i dont know about planning, but it's more that i've learned some things over the years hahaha, thank you so much :( <3<3

Rosie

ahhh yes I shall try to play around with that more! I kind of just do everything in punctuation on a whim so it's probably all over the place hahaha, thank you so much!! <3 Yeah I'm sure even if I learn to narrate better I will still minimise the number of sentences but you're right, I will experiment with it more to see what feels natural and enough!! Ohhhh I'm going to find that book ASAP I'm really interested in learning more about that! thank you so much <3<3 and yes of course, that's so sweet thank you!

Bub 🫧

Okay wow, so I have read give a little death but I didn't notice it was similar formatting to yours, yours caught 'my' attention way before then tho, chat am I biased?

ren

waiit you're one of my favorite writers so this is very interesting:)) also you're soo pretty <3

Rosie

it’s not completely similar but I was heavily inspired by it hehehe

Rosie

Thank youuu 😫🫶🏼 and thanks again 🥹🥹🥹🥹

Bub 🫧

And now yours in inspiring me 😁 The video was really helpful!! I watched it in parts at work hehe. Loved it

Rosie

hahaha I’m happy, did you like the phone call at the end?

Bub 🫧

Heheh yea, the moment you picked even before Ghuk said something I was like, 'it's gonna be Ghuk' ksksks

IJimin_everyday

Finally watching this! Love it! Writing my thoughts out: I laughed when you said people don’t text eachother speeches because I’m so guilty of sending long ass texts lol. I feel like it would be so hard to come up with dialogue without being descriptive because I feel like I’m not witty enough to think of what everyone would say. I’m always impressed when people are good with this aspect of writing! You’re smart as hell with the way you approach writing without sacrificing like the fun parts if that makes sense? It’s also cool to see some of your recs/inspirations sprinkled in. This kinda feels like a cool creative writing seminar haha. You’re making me want to try a writing exercise! I haven’t written creatively in forever 🥹. The phone call was so funny, I wasn’t sure where your statement about her mom was going 😂