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As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
-Stephen King
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As With All Other Aspects Of Fiction,

Stephen King
As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
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There's a point i can get to where i start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. a lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but i have to be ready to do it.
Writing Character Preparation
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. one starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. i read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy i used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.
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I have a hard time writing. most writers have a hard time writing. i have a harder time than most because i'm lazier than most. [...] the other problem i have is fear of writing. the act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why i think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. all the time i'm not writing i feel like a criminal. [...] it's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. especially when it goes on for years. it's much more relaxing actually to work.
Writing Hard Times Thinking
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. it's very difficult, unfortunately. you have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. you see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. it's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.
Writing Doubt Mind
It had also been my belief since i started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. when science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. but it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when i started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.
Writing Belief Kind
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. this really came home to me once i started writing fiction, that memory seemd a kind of fiction, or vice versa. either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore... warm with life, hopeless unstable.
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