You don’t need to strain yourself to come up with a completely unique voice for every single character, but if you remove dialogue tags and can’t tell whether a given line belongs to the 19-year-old stoner or their 65-year-old grandparent, you’ve missed an opportunity to imbue your characters with a lot of flavor and personality. Dialogue is a tremendous vehicle for characterization, and I feel like I don’t see people discuss that point very often! What a character chooses to say and how they say it can tell us a lot about who a character is, where they come from, and what they value. The clunky phrases will jump out and be much easier to correct than if you left it on the page. If you’re stuck, read your dialogue out loud. Your eyes are a different instrument than your ears and your brain processes speech and written text in different ways.
Does the back-and-forth feel natural? Is the conversation stilted, or does it feel like something people might actually say? When you’re reading words on paper, it can be difficult to identify the rough patches. In my opinion, the most important quality in dialogue is flow. I’m not an expert wordsmith by any means, but I’ve been doing simblr stories for about 2.5 years and writing creatively for much longer, so I hope some of this is helpful! Okay, I expanded a bit on my thoughts from earlier and wrote…like 800 words? Here’s a collection of largely-unrelated thoughts about writing dialogue. the components of the guide are simple-so simple it boils down to three words and two phrases: Gabe ( and i have compiled some best practices in a brand-new guide. Why does this happen? how do we avoid it?
this is the beginning of something new and fun, until … the conversation never moves beyond that starting point. it’s exciting, especially if you admire their story or just think they’re a cool person. you and another simmer express the desire to do something together.
among other things, it’s also a good way to make friends ! however, not everyone approaches the project the same way this isn’t always a problem, but it can become one when it prevents a collab-especially one between simmers who enjoy each other’s work-from getting off the ground. our stories and characters can be delightful on their own, but there’s something special about building a plot, a relationship, a character, an event, a whole entire world with someone else. AVOIDING COLLAB LIMBO™️: OR, HOW TO ACTUALLY MAKE THAT COLLAB HAPPENĪ strength of Royal Simblr™️ is how common and easy it is to do collaborative projects.
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