Among the elements that we consider and on which we need to play well to get an effect of verisimilitude are the dialogues. It happens often to read the authors emerging, while appear to be satisfactory in terms of smoothness of the texts, a few "folders" later, they fall miserably in dealing with the dialogue.
Let me give an example: imagine an author who has described an urban landscape, it moves a bunch of misfits. How do you think should play a dialogue between George, the leader and one of the components the band?
The situation is as follows: the band has organized a robbery attack on a petrol station, but someone called the police and only Roberto managed to escape arrest. George, the Chief was not present and asks the report of the incident.
In the dialogue, the words used by "actors" should be as usual, the usual. Avoid the search words and obsolete terms that give effect to "plaster". The credibility and, therefore, the likelihood of the story is also built in this way. This does not mean that we must refer to a kind of "realism" modern, bringing words in dialogues and sayings regionalistic. Do not forget that the hypothetical reader can belong to any geographical area. Send a dialect too rich colorings, used for the purpose of making it "likely" dialogue, not only ends with the tired quickly but, above all, difficult to understand.
Returning to the example above, the dialogue between George and Robert, could be the following:
-were already there ... we were waiting. We have not even had time to say "crack" that ...
- Cut short, I want to know how you did it to fool you ...
- There they are found upon him, the bastard children of the attendant trapped in the closet ... The money is here, he said. Peter and Mark came first, Phil did not trust but eventually we fell for it ...
-And you? - George is the look of grim-How did you escape? You are not smarter than others, but ... you're here ...
As you can see, the words used are simple, as it happens in a real dialogue, but the words "bastard" and "crack" immediately give the idea of \u200b\u200bthe characters and 'social environment to which they belong.
beginners often make excessive use of strong terms, often vulgar or otherwise not needed. Excessive coloring of dialogues with ends soon disturb the reader and divert attention with the facts you are telling.
When you write dialogue, strive to imagine how your characters would speak if they were people of flesh and bones. Please keep in mind as a social category they belong, what is the context in which they live, who have cultural baggage behind.
It 'very unlikely indeed, as sometimes happens to me to read that an offender appears to involve a saying
-were already there waiting for us .... We have not had the time to understand what was happening.
- No more delay, explained!
-We have been lured into a trap ... the gas station, with an excuse, has managed to imprison the children in the back ... I think that the example
it's quite clear, all you have to do now is to practice with dialogues do not forget to read aloud what you wrote. Get used to "listen", but not everyone can give good results.
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