Creative Writing with the Crimson League
Narration versus dialogue in fiction: are they as diametrically opposed as they sometimes seem? In what ways do they overlap?
I’ve been speaking lately about how our unique styles as authors and our approaches to creative writing often boil down to where we lie upon a spectrum between two extremes, rather than simply adopting one extreme over another.
- Philosophy versus story
- Showing versus telling
- Today’s topic is: narration versus dialogue.
First of all, I think every writer early on discovers that they have a preference for, or are better are writing, pieces of dialogue or narrative passages. I’m sure there are exceptions to this and authors who haven’t given the matter much thought. But personally, I prefer writing dialogue.
I feel I am better at dialogue in some respects. Dialogue can be tricky, of course: especially because it has to sound natural, which means that not ONLY should the way…
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