Dialog moves the story forward. It helps us to show instead of tell the audience. Dialog can help make a short story seem to contain boatloads of information. By having the characters make implications about the universe the live in,, the audience is exposed to more information in less lines by making them do the thinking them selves. We have to realize that we are writing for the audience, so why not at least make them help once and a while.
We discussed a few of the flaws commonly found in dialog; “monologging”, sounding too real or fake, contractions, and using names too often. Prof Jenkins strongly, and repeatedly advised us to read our work aloud before turning it in. After reading a few of my pieces aloud, I saw that these problems were the same as the ones I was having with my writing.
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