Moving away from a conversational style means more work for me, actually.
Dialogue is sort of an easy out, or at least it is for me, because I always hear characters yammering away in my head when I’m trying to write a scene. It’s harder to write descriptive passages. People talk to each other, there’s no way to avoid that in a story, but I feel less comfortable now writing a scene with a ton of dialogue than I used to. I try to do more of the storytelling in the plot and in the descriptive passages, and less inside the scenes between the characters. I switched away from this conversational style of writing that I had in my first three books. Over the years I learned that I am no playwright, and dialogue isn’t exactly my strong suit. Plays are, obviously, stories told in dialogue format, and I guess that got drilled into my head. I read everything from the ancients like Sophocles’ Oedipus, up to modern-day writing, like Angels in America. I studied theater in college which means I read a lot of plays. Everyone is talking to each other pretty much all the time. Everyone is t One of the biggest things I’ve noticed doing this read along is how much my style of writing has changed. One of the biggest things I’ve noticed doing this read along is how much my style of writing has changed. I graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in theater with a focus on the classics and now live in Los Angeles with my husband and daughter.more I am a #1 international bestselling author, a Massachusetts native, and the youngest of eight siblings. Check out the Linktree url above for more info. I can also be found on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, and I love connecting with readers.
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