Writing Realistic Dialogue
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10 min readAug 13, 2019
Using Idioms, Slang, Contractions, and Declinations.
Here’s a fancy word: verisimilitude. Its meaning: “Appearing to be true or real.” Just as a screenwriter creates a story universe which has a quality of verisimilitude, so, too, the dialogue — the words their characters speak — must feel real.
How do you go about making dialogue feel real?
- Dialogue must flow naturally from who each character is.
- Dialogue must fit the genre of your story.
- Dialogue must fit the context of each scene.
