tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312442398930078026.post450524182818766198..comments2023-06-14T17:51:46.718+02:00Comments on My Reading Lounge: Writing DialogueRaumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14103151749008178944noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312442398930078026.post-79576010559779525292011-05-11T21:15:15.569+02:002011-05-11T21:15:15.569+02:00thank you on your comment, Camilla!!
I loved this...thank you on your comment, Camilla!!<br /><br />I loved this short story by Hemingway! <br />I'd like to try the exercise they suggested above; they suggest to pick just three sentences from the eavesdropped dialogue...I'm curious to see if it works LoL<br /><br />-- RaumRaumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14103151749008178944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312442398930078026.post-84855208031763554052011-05-11T21:06:48.325+02:002011-05-11T21:06:48.325+02:00I remember exiting a cinema where they were showin...I remember exiting a cinema where they were showing a French comedy with Catherine Deneuve, because the dialogues were totally innatural. OMG they are all speaking like printed books - as we say in Italian. So, yes, natural dialogues approriate to the situation are essential. Now, Italian restaurants are quite noisy, one can't hear the people one is with, sometimes, let alone people sitting on other tables. But remembering what I normally hear, on trains and, particularly, buses, I have to say that most of what one listens to is boring like hell.<br />...and then I said ... and then she answered... and so on and on, never getting to the point. If I tried that on one of my stories I would lose immediately my few, valued readers. Plus, I write in English, and I would listen to Italian dialogues, so it would not even be good for slang. If they were speaking in English ... I probably would miss too much (Considering that I understand almost nothing when I hear my beloved Rob speaking in TV interviews - spoken English and written English are vastly different!) So maybe I have to pass on this suggestion, while is true that Ernest H wrote wonderful, clipped dialogues...Camilla10http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1871609/noreply@blogger.com