Lesson 24. Realism and Idiolect│The Mechanics of Fiction Writing
Channel: Mechanics of Fiction
Date: 2024-02-03

Characters aren’t people, they’re characters. And one of the major differences between characters and people is that people generate their own dialogue while the narrator does that for each character. Embracing the artificial nature of characters’ speech will paradoxically allow the writer to write more realistic, easier to read dialogue for their characters. Here we discuss why this is and offer a strategy or two for embracing this artifice.



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