ENHANCING YOUR WRITING DIALOGUE

Dialogue in composing is generally used to create and uncover characters and also bring out some kind of feeling structure the peruser. Dialogue is the correct words your characters say so anyone might hear or ponder internally. Through dialogue, you demonstrate instead of inform perusers regarding the characters in your story by passing on the characteristics and trait of that specific character successfully. As you continue, search for opportunities to utilize discoursed instead of depictions.

TELLING BY DESCRIPTION:
    John caught sight of Harry and greeted him with enthusiasm in the hallway. Harry, feeling totally embarrassed, tried to avoid his friend but he had no choice.

SHOWING BY DIALOGUE
  "Hey, chap! Good to see you!" yelled John, catching site of Harry in the hallway
  "Yeah" Harry said weakly "Good to see you too"
"What luck running into you here and all"
"Yeah, luck . . . huh" 

From the above example, you can see that Dialogue provides elaboration much more. You get to understand the traits of each character a lot better.

·                                    Note that also, when drafting your story avoid always having your narrator explain explain what happens next. The dialogue could do a good job in revealing further plot events.

       DESCRIPTION OF PLOT                                              PLOT REVEALED BY DIALOGUE 
        Jane was very angry with her mother                               "Mom! How could you forget? I keep 
       for forgetting to take her to the cinema.                              reminding you everyday to take me 
       Besides, her mother promised her about two                     to the cinema. And you just keep  
       weeks ago. Now, she just wanted to cry                           letting me down! I could just cry"

·                                 Do net let your dialogues be predictable. Otherwise, the whole thing could turn out to be a bit of a bore.

·                                   "I'm glad you love me" Sam said, with passion in his voice.
         "Me too" said Jane, " I love you, Sam"  

o                                                            Rather make it look like it's the character's speaking:

                     
     "Gosh, I like that you love me" Sam said with passion in his voice.
      "I like that you like that I love you" Janet said amusingly.
      "Whoa! you just got me confused there, lady" Sam giggled and Jane joined up.
                        
                 

o                                                        Be realistic! Make the dialogue seem humanly possible.Go natural. Do not go about bringing archaic up and big words which you do not know their meaning. It will look ambitious and fake. Unless you want to end up sounding like Shakespare, avoid big words in dialogues:                                                                                                                           "The day has proven to be a callous one, hereof. That post was ostentatiously taken from me when that lackadaisical brat showed up. What a megalomaniac!"                                            

o                                                         Don't forget, your ultimate goal is to make your reader feel something. So, no matter what you do, or how you do it, do not deviate from the plan.

(c) Chionye Okoh