Why is Dialogue Important?
The Hook. Good dialogue is good dialogue, whether you overhear it on a bus or read it in a good book. Dialogue has the potential to hook readers, but when done wrong it can as easily turn them off. Good dialogue will set up a scene and make readers want to read on. Read for Speed. Let’s face it, gone are the days where readers could spend full days indulged in a good book. Now readers have to balance full time careers, children and families with their reading and most don’t want to spend their time wading through muddy narrative. Readers are looking for that white space on the page that only dialogue can provide. Publishers are scouting it too. More white space on a page = more dialogue and the more dialogue you have = the faster read, and the faster readers read their books the quicker they are to buy another one. Show, not tell. There is nothing worse than reading a novel in which the author continually tells you about the way a character feels or the backstory of a situation. An aut
