Monday, January 23, 2012

Let Your Characters Talk!


What if your characters could talk to each other? They do, you say? Of course, that's called dialogue.

But what if two characters from two different stories could talk to each other? What if Bob the turtle from your story "I'm All Green" could talk to Vanessa the waitress in your story "The Sensational Sunshine Diner?"

Try it out. Pick a character from one of your stories. Then pick a character from another story. Now write a dialogue between the two of them. Let them talk on paper and see what happens.

If you don't have two finished stories, choose two favorite books. What if Percy Jackson talked to Max from Where the Wild Things Are? Or what if Junie B. Jones talked to Bud in Bud, Not Buddy? What would they talk about?

Have fun letting your characters talk!