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For a couple of years now i've been writing a novel that totally engroses me...however, i have accidentally thrown myself into a bit of a quandry!
i'd write parts on the bus, on the train, in my lunchbreak at work & slowly the "parts" i wrote in short time slots became the conversations between the two main characters, which became more like a script.
Problem now is although i love the conversations i've written for these characters i'm having a really really hard time converting the scripted parts back into pieces for my novel - just can seem to put the dialogue back into the prose! Anyone else ended up like this? any tips? aaaaaaaaargh! |
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easywriter58
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28/10/2007 | Well-I don't write that way- but you have to look at the context of the story and set the dialogue into the places where it fits. If the people are talking in a cafe-you have to have a time frame (when do they eat) and a background (A street in Paris for instance) and set the dialogue in there. I could look at the work and help you if you need help. You, in your own mind know why you wrote the dialogue down. |
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Suzanne
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28/10/2007 | I agree with Janyce that providing a "frame" might be a good way of dealing with one or more of your conversations. Sometimes it's good for the narrative to stop while the dialogue occurs. While it's perhaps not the answer to *all* of the scripted conversations you've crafted, it might be a good way to follow up or tie together a heavily narrative or "action" scene that has just happened. This is a time-honored technique used, for example, in opera, where the arias/songs are used to comment upon the action. It's a moment for the reader/audience to "catch up." And, I confess, I like reading spots of non-narrative dialogue here and there. Sometimes narrative gets in the way, and a good conversation presented plain and simple clears things up, or even moves things along.
Post edited on: 28/10/2007 04:31:14 AM |
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TirzahLaughs
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28/10/2007 | On the other hand, sometimes you have to cut. Sometimes you find that write things in your piece because it was important to you or you had to know but you find you don't need it for the part of the story you are telling. Then you have to cut it even when it hurts and even when you love it. You can always use it for something else later. |
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lucy
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28/10/2007 | I do the same thing. Write down things on pieces of paper, I have stacks sitting here. Not sure where they belong, if anywhere, in my story but there they are. Use them for other pieces of writing, if you don't have a place for them in your book. Use some of the words, ideas for the book, you don't have to use the whole piece. That makes it interesting for you - and more fun. No stress. :) |
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JakeMagargle
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28/10/2007 | what I would do is try to move the peices around a bit. Like move one dialoge with another and connect them somehow. If you do this you night end up with somthing that works.If not keep trying. Remember that you need to creat along the same plot as your book. Or creat an entirely new angle on things. Don't worry it just takes time! |
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