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Managing Fictional Narrative Flow - Dialogue/Indirect Discourse
Unit Completion Date: End of Week 9
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Probably the aspect that has the greatest impact on most young writers' dialogue is the use of pacing elements. Often a young writer will have only one or two ways they have developed to pace out dialogue, and so they find themselves using those same pacing elements over and over again. This usually manifests itself as an overabundance of characters who take drinks or drags on cigarettes, stand up, sit down, turn to the window, etc. The more ways you can find to pace out your dialogue, the less repetitive and more useful and flexible your pacing elements become.
Go back to the excerpt from your selected story that you chose at the beginning of the section, and divide the dialogue elements as I've done for the "Monster Teeth" excerpt. You can try to use formatting in your e-mails such as bold or italics in submitting this assignment, or find some alternate way of indicating your breakdown. Please post this exercise in the dialogue section of the class craftbook on the discussion board, and I highly recommend that you read other postings to see the different ways these authors pace out their dialogue.
Dialogue Exercise 2 (Req.) - Submit Response
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