Comments on: A Writer’s Gameplan: Dialogue With a Purpose http://theopinionguy.com/2009/09/a-writer%e2%80%99s-gameplan-dialogue-with-a-purpose/ inspiring creative non-fiction and amazing speculative fiction Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:39:38 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: editor http://theopinionguy.com/2009/09/a-writer%e2%80%99s-gameplan-dialogue-with-a-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-3 editor Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:26:51 +0000 http://theopinionguy.com/?p=624#comment-3 Jim, I fixed that little error. Yes, dialogue is hard. That is why so few writers can do it well. In this article I set all of my 'writing' pieces off with quotes so you knew it came from a larger piece. If you are writing a story (or a novel), internal dialogue would never be in quotes. Sometimes it would be italics, denoting that it was a specific word or sentence the character is saying in his mind. However, most of the time characters don't think in sentences. They just have thoughts and interpreted feelings. These should just appear as regular text. Does that help you out? Jim, I fixed that little error.

Yes, dialogue is hard. That is why so few writers can do it well. In this article I set all of my ‘writing’ pieces off with quotes so you knew it came from a larger piece. If you are writing a story (or a novel), internal dialogue would never be in quotes. Sometimes it would be italics, denoting that it was a specific word or sentence the character is saying in his mind. However, most of the time characters don’t think in sentences. They just have thoughts and interpreted feelings. These should just appear as regular text. Does that help you out?

]]> By: Jim http://theopinionguy.com/2009/09/a-writer%e2%80%99s-gameplan-dialogue-with-a-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Jim Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:59:24 +0000 http://theopinionguy.com/?p=624#comment-2 Forgive my ignorance, but I find dialogue to be the hardest thing about writing. One question I have for you that is not clear from the example: should internal dialogue be in quotes? Your example begins with an opening quote but I never see it closed so I cannot tell if the opening quote is in error or is the lack of an end quote the error? Forgive my ignorance, but I find dialogue to be the hardest thing about writing.

One question I have for you that is not clear from the example: should internal dialogue be in quotes? Your example begins with an opening quote but I never see it closed so I cannot tell if the opening quote is in error or is the lack of an end quote the error?

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