The importance of realistic dialogue

The importance of realistic dialogue

Dialogue has many uses, but the most important one for me is that it brings your characters alive. It breathes life into them, gives them personality and helps you differentiate one character from another. Back in the days when I wrote comic strips for children’s magazines, with a word limit of something like 24 characters per frame, which rarely left space for speech tags, my editors often told me that the reader should know which character was…