missed ask from 4 years ago
ajudson9violet-deactivated20180 asked:
Hey, so I'm pretty new to your blog, but really loving it so far! I just had a question. I just finished my first rough draft of my book, and I'm now going over it trying to edit it. But reading over it, I realize how forced some of the things are. Like, I really enjoy dialogue, and it comes really natural to me, but I hate descriptions of emotions and thoughts and stuff, oftentimes I find it a little too "flowery" and "dramatic" for my taste. So, any tips on how to let that flow?
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Wow, four years ago and you're deactivated I am so sorry!
I wish i had seen this cause this is an excellent question!
so imma answer it anyways.
The great thing here is that your dialogue is good and comes naturally! So, use that same logic to write your descriptions and thoughts and world building and everything you write into your book, say it out loud. Pretend you are telling this story to someone, like a conversation… but one sided dialogue. So if you think you are saying something a little badly, then imagine that the person you are telling the story to stops and asks you a question, then you answer the question, but without acknowledging the question.
I hope this is making sense but basically all writing can be dialogue right? The whole plot is you telling your Dear Reader the story.
The rest of the book that's not dialogue is the Narrator telling the story… Is you! ……If not a defined character for the particular book, the narrator is your voice!
Was going to type hope this helps, but I'm a little late I guess… just a tad!
