I read an interesting description of two characters in a book having a conversation. In short, it's the author talking to him/herself through two personalities. Does this infer that all authors have multi- personality disorders?
There are rules for creating dialogue.
- Determine the reason for the dialogue. ...
- Decide which characters are speaking. ...
- Use quotation marks to start and end spoken dialogue. ...
- Create a new paragraph for each speaker. ...
- Write the dialogue. ...
- Start with the action. ...
- Use dialogue tags to show who's speaking. ...
- Include action beats.
"What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset.
"Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?"
Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask stuck to his question. "What have I got in my pocket?" he said louder. "S-s-s-s-s," hissed Gollum. "It must give us three guesseses, my precious, three guesseses."
"Very well! Guess away!" said Bilbo.
"Handses!" said Gollum.
"Wrong," said Bilbo, who had luckily just taken his hand out again. "Guess again!"
"S-s-s-s-s," said Gollum, more upset than ever.
Have a go yourself.
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