I've been taking some time to read some of my writing lately, and I've been noticing just how crappy it all is.
My characters are so socially awkward when they talk it's not even cute. It just feels like they find each other repulsing. When my characters don't sound like they want to escape the other one, they're such cheese-balls, happily saying the same thing sentries of B-movie screen writers have drilled into my brain. That's right, I am talking about dialogue.
I have tried paying attention to conversations and how people talk, I've tried forcing them to sound normal, I've tried addressing the problem in the piece, but nothing works. Now I've resorted to making comics of the scenes in an attempt to 'get in my characters head' as someone suggested.
I think I'm having trouble because I myself have trouble carrying out a decent conversation, but I'm just hoping it's not that because if it is I think my future as a writer is doomed.
The other thing I noticed is that my writing is really choppy. I mean ( maybe you've noticed ), my paragraphs seem to start at the worst times, and I can't seem to actually start a new thought without it turning out completely random. I think this is also connected to the dialogue problem and lack of conversation skills.
I'm just worried, and scared, and feeling stupid in general. Any advice on how to write good dialogue, and how not to have such choppy writing, would be very much appreciated. Like really appreciated. I might even hug you to death.
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