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I have just had my second story posted at Lush and this one strays from the normal story at Lush as it is purely a narrative with no dialogue. I am curious among the readers here as to how important dialogue is to you finding the story interesting. This particular story just came pouring out of my mind, one evening during about a one hour stint at the computer. It was originally done as a complete narrative and I considered going back and adding some dialogue, but found I was more proud of it just coming out of me in one setting. I also was writing it in the style of someone relating an incident that had happened to them to a friend, perhaps and there would not be any dialogue in a story-telling of that type.

That said, I still would like to hear feedback as to whether the absence of dialogue takes away from your interest in the story that you are reading.

Thanks for your feedback
Reese
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The first thing that occurs to me is that dialog is a wonderful way to present the personality of a character. Through their own words, rather than the narrator describing them. I've found it is a good way for the reader to get a real feeling of knowing the people in the story by hearing them speak.

I sometimes use dialog sparingly if I simply want the reader to judge a character by their actions. But conversation is a great way to open up the story from the perspective of the speakers. It will certainly always depend upon what you are trying to show the reader about the story and the players.
Beffer
Rainbow Warrior
A pure narrative can work fine if there isn't too much recounting of things that were said by your characters. Then it can become glaring that you should have just had them speaking in their own voices in the first place. Otherwise, the Awesome green guy above me makes some excellent points!
AbigailThornton
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Quote by Sweet_Reese
I have just had my second story posted at Lush and this one strays from the normal story at Lush as it is purely a narrative with no dialogue. I am curious among the readers here as to how important dialogue is to you finding the story interesting. This particular story just came pouring out of my mind, one evening during about a one hour stint at the computer. It was originally done as a complete narrative and I considered going back and adding some dialogue, but found I was more proud of it just coming out of me in one setting. I also was writing it in the style of someone relating an incident that had happened to them to a friend, perhaps and there would not be any dialogue in a story-telling of that type.

That said, I still would like to hear feedback as to whether the absence of dialogue takes away from your interest in the story that you are reading.

Thanks for your feedback
Reese


Exactly this - your last story uses reported speech. It's not that it has 'no dialogue', it's just a stylistic choice of how you are reporting the characters' speech.

It's a good feeling when a story flows like that.

Personally, I prefer to read and write direct speech.
cethpada
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I prefer to read and write using dialogue it gives the characters a voice and personality but no direct dialogue when done well can be just as effective. I had the reverse a while back when I wrote an entire story with only dialogue, it was a challenge but very rewarding and was as far as I was concerned the write way to present the story.
jennabee81
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I love dialogue. Both reading it and writing it, when done well.
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I like to read a story as if somebody is sitting there telling it to me. As such, dialog isn't terribly important to me, but I agree it can give insight into the personality of a character. So far, that's been the main reason for me to include it.
Pelwrath
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The lack of dialogue makes it harder for me to identify with thw characters and to a lesser degree the story. I don’t feel that narration is bad, wrong or to be avoided. Narrative is important to a story. My stories are dialogue heavy.
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perrym
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I like dialogue as long as it is realistic. I have read so many stories where someone screams "suck my cock whore slut". or something similar, that it feels as though the author went to the dialog store and bought phrases off the clearance rack.
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I want dialogue.
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As a writer, I love writing dialogue and spend a fair bit of time on it when i have it in stories. Certainly, you can do without it in shorter works (esp. flash) but if you are telling a story with multiple characters, it's a great way to put information in without an "infodump", to show other characters POV without changing the POV of the story, and it's the natural way for humans to interact with each other.
Verbal
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Dialogue is all.

You can use it to present exposition, character, description, plot, relationship, tension, yadyadayada. Plus, it breaks things up, and keeps the speed of the story fast and moving.

It's like the Swiss Army knife of writer's tools. smile
kiteares
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Personally I love writing dialogue. I find myself having conversations with myself, at least now there's a purpose, and really getting into the heads of the characters. I often have to tighten it up several times before it is clear enough for others to understand.
A like how you can build different people with the nuances of how they speak and how they react to how others do.

What is not to love about dialogue?

I have had some positive comments about it, which just encouraged me to do more and I ended up doing a story that apart from 2 text message pings, is 100% dialogue. That was fun to write and people seemed to have enjoyed it.

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Meagananne1986
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My stories have been written so far in the first person and either are true stories of my own experiences, have elements of truth that I have experienced in them or elements of truth that I know from friend's accounts of their experiences. I think dialogue is very important as I has the ability to place the reader in the story and often in the place of either the protagonist or antagonist. Those are the best stories in my opinion. They engage the reader and keep the reader's attention.