By Delilah Des Anges
It is a selection of rants, essays, lists, and different marginalia and arguments in terms of the awfulness that's trying to write novels, brief tales, and poetry. You idiot! placed this publication down and again away slowly. it's not for sharpening your ego in any respect!
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Harder still is making sure that dialogue has an effect, that it changes something not just in the plot, but in the relationship. How can you accomplish that? First, start by deciding that you're not going to have long stretches of dialogue that just displays how funny this guy is, or shows how well they get along, or passes on to the reader some necessary information. All that is fine, but think how the conversation will crackle when the reader realizes that this moment of conversation is going to change something.
Oh, you object to the kind of business I do, huh? But think of all those poor refugees who must rot in this place if I didn't help them. Well that's not so bad, through ways of my own, I provide them with exit visas. Rick: For a price, Ugarte, for a price. Ugarte: But think of all the poor devils who can't meet Renault's price. I get it for them for half. Is that so parasitic? Rick: I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one. Ugarte: Well, Rick, after tonight, I'll be through with the whole business, and I'm leaving finally, this Casablanca.
The amplification (Oh, so sorry, too, very hard, now) that makes the sentence longer and more "soft-edged", the effort at camaraderie (my cousin), the use of a personal example. If you read, "So I'd say it's time for a two-pronged attack on that cancer. Yeah, keep on with the chemo, but bring in a personal trainer and start an exercise program," you might figure it was a man-- the "So" here meaning a conclusion or judgment, the authoritative "I'd say", the immediate search for a "fix" (most men see a problem and immediately devise a fix), the "war metaphor" (two-pronged attack).