Writingcamp + Love Series 1: Allergy

WEEK 6: HOW TO CREATE A DIALOGUE?

Lesson's Highlights

How to write engaging Dialogue?

1. Let yourself talk to the character and imagine the dialogue style of the character

2. Read plays and movie scripts to learn the way characters might speak in such works.

3. Add conflict into the scene with dialogue

Make the dialogue more interesting

1. Don’t go straight to the purpose add some suspicions, cover-ups and intrigue.

2. Make disputes instead of making Q&A

3. Increase communication barriers

4. Add elements of fear

5. Arrange subtext into the dialogue

6. Display significant deviations

7. Compress the dialogue -refine the conversation.

8. Let the dialogue develop in accordance with the actions, silences, and changes in the environment.

Scene

When Love and James met at the University after a night filled with drunkedness

"Who are you? Kanina ka pa tingin ng tingin sa akin!?" tanong ko sa lalaking ito na kanina pa tingin ng tingin. Hindi ko gusto ko ang mga tingin niya. Para niya akong nanakawan ng kamayanan ko.

"Hey, answer!" dagdag ko pa. Hindi siya nagsasalita at natingin lang sa akin. May hawak siyang bola ngayon. I don't care kung may makakita sa aming ibang students. Mind their own f*****g business!

"Ikaw iyon kagabi hindi ba?" sagot niya.

"Anong kagabi?" tanong ko. Hindi ko alam ang sinasabi niya. I just drunk last night. I can't remember what happened.

"Iyong lasing na lasing at nagsusuka sa gilid?" wika nito. Mahina lang ang boses niya. Sa tingin ko naman ay hindi kami maririnig gamit lamang ang tingin ng mga tao.

"So ikaw iyon!?"

I remember na, may lalaking tumulong sa akin no'n. Siya pala iyon, and look, he's kinda hot but I don't like her vibes, look so cheap.

"Yup, and next time, huwag mo nang uulitin iyon," nakangiting saad nito. Umalis na siya dala ang ball at ang bola dahil may tumawag sa kaniyang lalaki.