How do you create a chronological in-depth dialogue between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and randolph that led to the executive order 8802?

Answer 1

Writing dialogue is not as hard as you're letting it seem. You have dialogue all the time -- it's called talking. If you honestly cannot think of what your characters are going to say to one another, you need to go take a break and go somewhere out in public. Sit somewhere in the middle of a crowd for one to two hours and just listen to people talking. Then, go home and write down some of the things you heard people saying. That's dialogue.

To write historical dialogue, you have to do some serious research! Find out what FDR and Randolph might have said by looking up the era, the details of Order 8802, and everything you can find about that era so you'll know how people talked back then.

When you need to have your characters talk, just pretend it's you and a friend (or several friends), and have them say something you'd probably say in the same situation. Then imagine what your friends would say in reply, and go back and forth that way. As you become a better writer, your characters themselves will "tell" you what they want to say, because they become like real people to you.