Literature
8 Quick Tips for Writing Dialogue
1) Dialogue in fiction is nothing like how people talk in real life. It’s fine to use “as heard in real-life” phrasing, but real-life dialogue is often meaningless. Ideally, every word of dialogue in fiction should serve a purpose and progress the plot or character development. If it has more than one meaning (subtext), all the better.
2) Start the conversation late and exit early. No one wants to read small talk, hellos, or goodbyes unless they add meaning to the story … which is almost never.
3) No info dumping in dialogue, please. Only put quotation marks around what you can actually envision the character saying
