Writing: Characters and Dialogue

Passion and strong emotion do not mean romantic thoughts -- people can hate passionately, love passionately, care about, want to help -- any strong emotion can be termed passionate.

The best way to show this is to show the characters' actions and words.

Some stock characters present in "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson include the town's leader, Mr. Summers; Mr. Graves, who assists with the lottery process; Old Man Warner, the traditionalist who insists on continuing the lottery; and Tessie Hutchinson, who ultimately becomes the "winner" of the town's brutal tradition.

Good fantasy series include J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings; C.S. Lewis's Narnia Series; Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series; anything by Ursula LeGuin or Robin Hobb or Madeleine L'Engle. If you like funny fantasy, try Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

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I'd also add David Gemmell, Jasper Fforde, Mark Robson, Terry Goodkind, Ian Irvine, and R.A. Salvatore. There are plenty more fantastic authors out there; but a special mention again goes to Terry Pratchett.

The character in Canterbury Tales known for being dainty is the Prioress. She is described as having delicate features and refined manners, often showing sophistication and elegance in her behavior.

No, a dynamic character is a character who undergoes significant internal changes or development throughout the story or play. Minor characters are typically less central to the plot and may not experience as much growth or change as major characters.

His death was not part of the main story line. However, when the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come takes Scrooge to the Crachett house, Tiny Tim has passed away, supposedly because they could not afford medical care to help him.

Grandfather ate some wild unknown fruit and his stomach ran. He went into the elephant grass to relieve himself. But he did not come for long. So it is assumed that either he lost his way in the tall grass or was eaten up by some wild animal.

1. "How was your day?" "It was good, thanks for asking."
2. "What time should we meet tomorrow?" "Let's aim for 10 a.m."
3. "Are you coming to the party tonight?" "I can't make it, I have other plans."
4. "Do you need help with anything?" "No, I think I got it covered."
5. "What's your favorite movie?" "I love comedies, they always make me laugh."

Tabloids often have names like "Examiner," "Enquirer," or other such "reporting" names - even though they're not reporting, they're digging for gossip!

Try using the name of your fictional city following by a word that reminds you of a tabloid!

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.

Surely you've attended some sort of birthday celebration -- you already know what things would go on and what people would talk about.

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.

You would have to consider the various aspects of this situation. The exam may be hard or easy; you might be facing it with fear or with confidence; you may be planning to study, or you may not want to bother; you may care about your grades or you may not care; you may have a close relationship with your friend, or a distant relationship; you might take a competitive attitude (I'm going to do better on the exam than you are) or a cooperative attitude (help me study for the exam). Once you have an idea of the details of the situation, you can easily imagine the kind of dialogue that would fit in that situation.

You could write a simple conversation between two students in New York on September 11 and their reactions to the day's events.

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.

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.

In These Boots Are Made For Stalking, they take a break.

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.

Surely you've bought something - even if it's not a two-wheeler. You can guess the sort of things they would talk about.

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.

The features of poems are easy to recognize and has effective use of language. Poems are structured in mini paragraphs called stanzas. Poems have meanings to life and unlocks your heart of emotions. Some poems rhyme and others explain different things. For an example; a famous poem about war, love, etc . Poems have language devices like similes, metaphors, personification , punctuation , adjectives , connectives and a whole lot more. I

The main character in "Just Ella" is Ella, a young woman who finds herself navigating the expectations of society following her fairy-tale marriage to a prince. Supporting characters include the prince, the royal family, and other individuals in the palace who influence Ella's journey.

He is Humorous. he calls Century Village "a theme park for old people'

And he is helpful

"No Gumption" is a chapter in the memoir Growing Up by Russell Baker. He writes about how he was considered to not have "gumption" by his mother and others; he preferred to read comic books and such instead of working or doing chores. He does start selling the Saturday Evening Post as a newsboy, but at the end of the chapter, his life has changed: he decides he will be a writer when he grows up.

The less serious character in Elizabethan tragedies that contrasts with the more central serious character is known as the "foil." Foils are used to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the main character through comparison.

Julie, guess what... I want to become so wealthy that I might be able to help needy children all over the world. Sure Jackie, it would be nice to wipe out poverty and give hope to all those that are suffering in all societies.

By showing how they react. You know how people look, act, and speak when they feel different emotions -- make your characters show that they have emotion instead of just telling the reader that they do.

If someone is sad, show them crying, walking stooped over, staying in bed instead of going out, or any of the other ways people show they are sad.