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askerian ([personal profile] askerian) wrote2012-07-28 04:24 pm
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Writing process: dialogue

I am the silliest. It is me.

BUT IT WORKS FOR ME OKAY.


[personal profile] askerian: one thing that helps me with dialogue is to play it out loud like it's a theater play
[personal profile] shewhoflies: really?
[personal profile] askerian: helps make me realize "okay there's no way he wouldn't stutter, this sentence is way too long" and "no, the other guy would interrupt there" and whether the description needs a "he whispered" or "she snapped/yelled/hissed" etcetera
[personal profile] shewhoflies: ooohhhhhhh *_____*
[personal profile] askerian: it just flows way more naturally when you've said it out loud
[personal profile] shewhoflies: hahaha, yeah, one thing that gets me mad is when in a fight someone says something too long
[personal profile] askerian: yeah, no, someone would interrupt them! D:<
[personal profile] shewhoflies: YESSSS
[personal profile] askerian: ... i do it in my bedroom with the blinds drawn because people seeing me = embarrassing as fuck XD;;;
[personal profile] shewhoflies: <3<3<3
[personal profile] askerian: also since i'm walking around my bedroom i end up acting out some gestures, and that makes the scene more alive than just dialogue, and sometimes having the characters move in each other's space has a serious influence on what they say and how it diverges. also, body language is important too.
[personal profile] shewhoflies: OMG.
[personal profile] askerian: like a dialogue over the radio goes way different than a dialogue when they can get all in each other's space and roll their eyes and shove each other around.
[personal profile] askerian: and/or surprise!make outs. >_>
[personal profile] shewhoflies: heeee. you're an actress!
[personal profile] askerian: ... pffff as if XD
[personal profile] shewhoflies: .........XD
[personal profile] askerian: maybe internally, because yeah, that playing thing? in the dark. like i'm some rad bartending rper. [/old meme is old.]
[personal profile] shewhoflies: XDDDD
[personal profile] shewhoflies: still.
[personal profile] shewhoflies: that
[personal profile] shewhoflies: is
[personal profile] shewhoflies: pretty
[personal profile] shewhoflies: awesome.
[personal profile] askerian: nyooooooooo
[personal profile] askerian: anyway people wanted me to do theater and i'm like AHAHAHA IN PUBLIC??? YOU WILL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE.
[personal profile] shewhoflies: XDDDDDD
[personal profile] askerian: but for fic writing seriously it really helps make things feel more alive
[personal profile] askerian: ... tho i often end up running through the same scene about a dozen times before it settles on one version.
[personal profile] shewhoflies: wooooooooooooooooow *_____________*
[personal profile] askerian: pfff
[personal profile] askerian: half the time when my AIM away message says i'm dancing i'm actually self-rping XD;;
[personal profile] shewhoflies: *_______________*
[personal profile] askerian: ... this results in an incredible amount of ridiculous plotbunnies where characters have a party for absolutely no reason I can figure out and sing songs to each other that probably wouldn't even exist in their time period. but it's fun. XD
[personal profile] shewhoflies: OMG.
[personal profile] shewhoflies: <3<3<3
[personal profile] askerian: those will never leave my head. like. ever.
[personal profile] askerian: but i totally have a battlefield terra sidefic where the eight pilots also play heavy metal. *hangs head*
[personal profile] shewhoflies: awesome!
[personal profile] askerian: pffhahaha nooo XD sillyfun
[personal profile] shewhoflies: but fun.
[personal profile] askerian: yes. u.u
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[personal profile] lexicology 2012-07-28 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
That seems like a perfectly reasonable way to work on dialogue. And yeah, I know those plotbunnies for characters listening to music they totally wouldn't, from listening to music while trying to work out plot stuff. They're fun. :D

...And now I kinda wanna see that Battlefield Terra sidefic. Lemme guess, Jake gets totally into it and is headbanging his heart out, Dave is playing it totally cool and maybe just slightly nodding along sometimes, Jade is going to town nearly as much as Jake, Rose is just sighing and going, "If you must...I guess I'll go along with it," while Roxy is totally belting out the vocals, and Karkat is curled up in a corner holding his ears aural flaps and going "WRY."
Edited 2012-07-28 15:32 (UTC)