Monday, October 14, 2013

Dialogue

Read Matthew 4-6

Matthew 4:4 "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

The right kind of dialogue can add action and drama to our stories. We can use dialogue to show conflict or a character’s decision-making process.

To give different characters distinctive ways of speaking, we could use the characters’ word choices. Dialect is hard to write and hard to read, but a few phrases that suggest dialect might be sufficient for a character.

Even nonfiction benefits from dialogue. Whether we are writing a question and answer type of article or an essay, dialogue gets and keeps a reader’s interest.

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