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 Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 7:38 am
i just finished the latest and newest chapter of my fic and i was struck with the fact that i dont really know what i should do to make my characters talk about or strike a conversation of. i feel so awkward and it makes me wonder if i even have social skills or is it the fact that its fictional characters and i have to think up the conversation, its flow and responses emotion_facepalm
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 5:40 am
It's probably just the whole making a conversation from scratch bit. Normally, you or the other party starts talking and it's easy enough to go from there, but it's a lot more difficult when making conversation for two characters. So I'm sure your social skills are just fine. XD
It might help to find someone else who knows the characters and get them to use one to dialogue with the other with you...so...like mini roleplay, or something.
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 3:51 pm
I remember when I first started out, dialogue was the most difficult part of writing for me. Ironic because now I would say that it is one of my strongest points. It took a lot of practice and at first it was slow for me to write out dialogue since I had to think carefully about what they would say. Now it's almost effortless. Don't give up!
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 9:50 am
Lufuu It's probably just the whole making a conversation from scratch bit. Normally, you or the other party starts talking and it's easy enough to go from there, but it's a lot more difficult when making conversation for two characters. So I'm sure your social skills are just fine. XD It might help to find someone else who knows the characters and get them to use one to dialogue with the other with you...so...like mini roleplay, or something. thanks i'll definitely try it emotion_kirakira
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 9:51 am
Night Kunoichi I remember when I first started out, dialogue was the most difficult part of writing for me. Ironic because now I would say that it is one of my strongest points. It took a lot of practice and at first it was slow for me to write out dialogue since I had to think carefully about what they would say. Now it's almost effortless. Don't give up! thank you, i am just glad i wasn't the only one with this problem and hearing that its your strong point now encourages me to try harder biggrin
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 8:24 pm
Amarathiine Night Kunoichi I remember when I first started out, dialogue was the most difficult part of writing for me. Ironic because now I would say that it is one of my strongest points. It took a lot of practice and at first it was slow for me to write out dialogue since I had to think carefully about what they would say. Now it's almost effortless. Don't give up! thank you, i am just glad i wasn't the only one with this problem and hearing that its your strong point now encourages me to try harder biggrin I'm glad this helped you! :3 Good luck!
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 9:45 pm
Whenever I have that problem, I just have the character their talking to open with a non-sequitter. Yeah, its a little blatant, but people start conversations like that in real life too, so its not completely out of place. So long as you make sure whatever it is makes sense for the character speaking.
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 3:12 am
biggrin thanks guys i feel so much better knowing that i can get better and there are ways to get through it 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 3:14 am
Renkon Root Whenever I have that problem, I just have the character their talking to open with a non-sequitter. Yeah, its a little blatant, but people start conversations like that in real life too, so its not completely out of place. So long as you make sure whatever it is makes sense for the character speaking. thanks I'll be sure to keep that in mind and try it :'D
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 12:53 pm
Whenever I have a hard time trying to come up with the "perfect" phrasing for a character or I simply cannot figure out what the heck they would say in a situation or how they would deal with certain scenarios/other characters, I find it helpful to watch episodes that feature that character if it's a show or I pay close attention to their scenes if it's a movie/game/etc. So I guess what I'm trying to say rather clumsily is that reviewing that character's speech patterns/actions in the work that they appear in really helps. sweatdrop
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