...or, Sell No Rhyme Before Its Time - In this final post of the series, we look at major pitfalls that can keep your story unpublished and how to avoid them.
A good trick to make dialogue more snappy is having characters not answer a direct question :) - this sounds flip, but it's fun to do... of course you can overdo it and it gets annoying, but think about it: in real life how often do people talk cross purpose, not because they're mean to each other but because the mind has already gone beyond the question asked ... This does not apply to a question like: what time does the plane leave ... sometimes you need to answer!
A good trick to make dialogue more snappy is having characters not answer a direct question :) - this sounds flip, but it's fun to do... of course you can overdo it and it gets annoying, but think about it: in real life how often do people talk cross purpose, not because they're mean to each other but because the mind has already gone beyond the question asked ... This does not apply to a question like: what time does the plane leave ... sometimes you need to answer!