I'm working on my first project and its extremely dialogue heavy.As in characters talking to each other one on one and in groups.
Watch a lot of daytime television and talk shoes
Make every dialogue exchange into a social peacock attempt with witty quip. Always make the MC sound intelligent, like they, she, or he listens to NPR, subscribes the New Yorker and a avid fan of rick and Morty. Your baseline media for individuals with high IQ.Here is some examples.>"Hey, MC do you know where X is?">"Uhhh, how about you find out. Not my problem fuckface." *witty sfx to make MC sound badass*>"Um, MC what was that giant Y monster doing?">"Don't ask, penis breathe." *stomps away*>"Thanks for the info after we got got shot at dingus." >*pans to MC face with a smirk.*Your MC should be self insert of you and how badass you are at the office, nobody wants to start banter with you at the water cooler. Because they know you will end it. Always include a description of eyes rolling, or a head bob with a flick of hair. Anytime you can insert soapboxing into the scene do it, so you can expose your political power level to fellow awakened stardust scientists. Always insert a joke when the scene feels to emotional or serious to lighten the mood. Make a joke character that is a strawman of all the things you disagree with, who is bullied by all the supporting characters to show the audience what to think. PS don't forget that comedic relief animal companion.Watch any movie made in the last decade and you got it. My favorites are any marvel movie, new starwars, Rick and Morty, any new Disney film, or that Invincible movie game is filled with it. Always include swear words because using the word 'fuck' in every sentence is a sign how grown up you are. If you follow this advice you will make millions.
>>24879370Good advice for targeting the mainstream American demographics but this is a hobby project.I don't intend to make millions with it.
>>24879378Try to consider how it feels and how you'd represent the reality of a conversation—stutters, malapropisms, people talking over each other and interrupting, the various inner voices narrating reactions to said interruptions etc. Too much dialogue is too clean and too perfect....Other than that, read a lot of good dialogue with an analytical mindset.
>>24879338Go out and listen to how people talk in the real world.One of my friends gave me this advice over 15 years ago. He advised me to leave my room and go out into the real world and hear what people have to say to improve my dialogue.I did, and it improved my dialogue a lot. It also turned me into something of a social butterfly where before I'd been a shut-in. So there were multiple benefits.
>>24879338Read Stendhal
take shrooms and go to town
>>24879338make sure you keep the characters' different motivations in mind, and get it through using the dialogue
>>24879370do you by any chance have any online courses i could pay a month's salary to subscribe to?
>>24879338>allision People are lazy. Avoid situations that require prepositions. Ticky-Tacky consonants. Adjacent vowel sounds that flow from less to more open.
Read Raymond Chandler and watch old noir movies. Very fast and sharp dialogue
>>24879338McKee wrote the book on it
There's no special formula although hacks like the one mentioned here >>24880833 will try to sell you some
>>24879370
>>24879338Read theatre, analyze the way each character expresses themselves, not exactly through content, but through the way each one lives the world. Great dialogues do not depend solely on form or content, but on the non-separation between the two. Dialogue, like any part of the work, should reside as an in-between for the characters to experience something. Actions are primordial for us to exist in the world, but words fix the characters’ beliefs and their attempts to express those beliefs.What I am saying with all this is that good dialogues are those that demonstrate the characters’ experience with life, as if each one, although fictional, participated in a world that is believable alongside ours (which is why we are affected by experiences different from our own) and even if this is the moment we read about, they already had previous formations (a life baggage). So, read theatre to familiarize yourself with this. Shakespeare for grandiloquence and philosophy, Samuel Beckett for economy and experimentalism, there are others, but these are my influences.
>>24881659Why do zoomcucks project gen x writing on millenials?
>>24882814Because it is millennial writing and marketed for millennials. Even though some writers are gen-x it is still marketed for that age bracket. They are like pigs at a trough when the latest slop is released like the Dispatch game. The writing in that game is unbearable because it was made by and created for the "millennials", who use identity politics as their only identity in real life because they have no identity themselves. Because in 2008 their early adulthood dreams, expeditions, and hopes were rug pulled, like zoomers in 2020. Millennials coped with left progressive identity politics, like how zoomers coped with right wing self help identity politics and memes. Both age groups have this deep moral insecurity that is manufactured by intelligent agencies.This progressive soap box shit existed all they back in the 60s, you could say it goes back to women suffrage and the gentleman movement. Its this mind virus that exponentially grows with each generation corrupting literacy and everyday life. Every piece of fiction from them is a spiritual and mental assault by them.
>>24879370Excellent for 2/3rds of it, kinda low effort too obvious by the end.
