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Before I ever wrote a novel, I wrote plays. Before that, I was on stage speaking other people’s words as an actor. Turns out, theatre gave me one of the best possible educations in dialogue. So I’m going to walk through a series of posts about how playwriting and theatre work can inform your dialogue skills. The first big thing to consider is this: Dialogue is key to character. In long-form fiction, you can expand on dialogue with internal thought. You can explain what a character meant, or what they felt, or what they wished they had said. On stage, most of that internalisation doesn’tRead More →