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BaronVanAwesome
Sep 11, 2001

I will never learn the secrets of "Increased fake female boar sp..."

Never say never, buddy.
Now you know.
Now we all know.
I started writing for Screen stuff again (just purely for fun), and I've run into the same issue that I do every time:

Dialogue.

I don't know if I channeling George Lucas or what, but I can't seem to give my characters any real weight to what they're saying - they just seem to talk and talk without really saying anything.

The other issue is just making things funny - I've been writing short little comedy scenes, but the spoken "jokes" just seem really flat on the paper. They're funny when I think about them, but two people exchanging them seems...not funny.

So, uh...are there any easy tips for making my dialogue less wordy and better shaped?

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