#dialogue rhythm

[penstricken]

Top Tips for Writing Beautiful Dialogue

Read my top tips for writing dialogue in my new blog post here 👇 #amwriting #writing #fiction #writer

Dialogue is a critical part of any novel. Apart from the fact it makes up a monumental chunk of your overall word count, it can be a powerful tool for creating suspense, driving the plot and fleshing out your characters. Get it right, and you’re halfway towards writing a killer novel. Get it wrong, and you’re done for. If you really want to see a master of dialogue at work, you should read Hills…

[daisywords]

my new writing/editing hack (I'm sure everyone else figured this out years ago) is switching out my "for a moment" and other useless beat markers with just some description of the setting/other characters present. Retaining the right rhythm while throwing in some more sensory detail (something I can be a little sparse with). Anyway I'm a genius for this

[mochiiniko]

gotta love finding new ways to hate on cole /j (ramble thing about act 4 under the cut since ive been thinking about it lately)

im just extremely confused as to why cole just?? left??? or was about to leave middlesea, at least. i find it weird since he was so hellbent on visiting nicole in 2-X

but then he just. leaves

and nicole is the reason why he comes back so why didnt he just

not leave the hospital 💀

then theres also the whole thing with a big chunk of the post 1-XN dialogue being cut after act 5, and while nicoles line being cut out made me sad at first it makes sense because i wouldnt want to talk to cole too sorry </3

i dont think he even told her he was planning to leave which is. cole. girl what were you thinking 😭

edit: looked through the wiki again for more dialogue and yea i forgot about this

and the 2-X clear text makes me even more confused i HATE this man (/lh hes still one of my favorite characters unfortunately)

[natjennie]

play it by ear dropout.tv is sosos so important to me when I'm high. that shit is genuine magic. how are they doing that.

[herosplatling-replica]

if you ask me Ian has a complicated thing going on with his gender but is so busy working on the rhythm defibrillator that he can't really unpack all of that yet. happy miku day

[northwest-by-a-train]

One of my most deeply-held beliefs on culture is that somewhere out there there is a 27yo with a crinkled non-binary flag in the corner of their room, more mugs and dirty plates in their sink than bricks in the tower of Babel, less than 70 of god's own dollars in their bank account to finish the month and five dying plants on the windowsill, crusty stuff in the corner of their eyes, who has crafted a world of aching beauty Tolkien and Homer could only ever dream of, a vision that honours all that is noble and raw in the heart of Man, a vindication of existence and a balm to suffering, all for the benefit of a half-dozen harem pants wearers on a server named "Bingus' Grotto"

[theotherpacman]

ah yes it's my favorite song "HEY LAPIS ARE YOU OKAAAAYYYYY" "yeah" "ARE YOU SURE?" "yeah" ".. IM LEAVIN BUT ILL BE BACK" "okay" "DO YOU NEED ANYTHING?" "no" "....... WHAT SEASON IS THAT" "three"

[amethystsoda]

💖 💫 Muse Dash 💫 💖

[hawkeyeslaughter]

real good chance of me actually finishing this fanfic if u guys even care

[no-longer-human33]

Rhythm Thiefers... I have both a Japanese and English copy of Rhythm Thief... would anyone be interested if I transcribed all the dialogue from both versions...

[junkmailmusubi]

[mariocki]

The Brothers Rico (1957)

"Okay, okay, so nobody's blaming you! Let's just say something happened way back, huh? So maybe I am gonna die. But, Eddie, you've got even bigger troubles. You're gonna live."

[nightmun]

Here’s a quick little sketch I did a while ago of more Cole harassing people, this one based on dialogue from the janitor in game

Here’s the dialogue it’s based on if you’re curious:

[swallowtailed]

in the early scenes of misericorde & thinking about (a) opening sequences and (b) quickly establishing characters. i love beginnings

[non-plutonian-druid]

heres a treat for the three of you that follow me for voltron. remember that gravity falls au from a million years ago? probably not but here you are anyway!!

[ID: A six panel comic, drawn in a loose sketchy style that could resemble the Gravity Falls style if it were finished. The backgrounds are traced from shots of the gift shop of the Mystery Shack.

Panel 1: Lance leans over the register and hooks an arm around Pidge to see what book she's reading. Pidge looks disgruntled. Lance says, "Oh, Mothman? Are you into that cryptid hunting stuff?"

Panel 2: Lance squashes Pidge a bit so that he can make a frame with both his hands. Pidge protests "HEY". Lance continues, "Have you thought about investigating Keith?"

Panel 3: Through Lance's hand frame, we see Keith, who is stocking shelves and not paying attention. Lance says, "I swear that guy's not human."

Panel 4: The same image as before, except now Keith is looking at Lance and flipping him the bird. Lance says, "I mean, just look at that mull-" but is cut off when Shiro says "Lance."

Panel 5: Shiro, who is also stocking shelves, looks very tired. He has a box of gnome statues tucked under his missing arm, and is holding one of the statues in his other arm. He says, "Just. Why."

Panel 6: Lance lifts his arms and smiles, saying, "Sorry Shiro!" He is still leaned most of the way across the register, but Pidge has escaped his grasp. She is frowning at him and holding her book protectively to her chest. End ID.]

[random-kido]

Off-rhythm

sounders has a set schedule for himself and star not coming over to gossip to him is setting him off course

bonus

He isn’t the only one being thrown off