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mithenThis week, as promised: What's your favorite line of dialogue from a current WiP?
Ha ha, the funny thing is when it asked for narration a couple of weeks ago I was all "No, my dialogue is better!" But this week I went to find a bit of dialogue and OF COURSE now all my favorite WiP sections are narration. Anyway, here is a bit, which is not as dark as it sounds out of context:
“I wonder how you look with your eyes dark with fear.” Bruce’s murmur seemed to wander down his spine like silky claws. “Fear or desire, they can be so hard to tell apart sometimes. I wonder how you look with your fingers trembling.”
I'm frustrated also because the latest and penultimate chapter of my non-superhero WiP is twice as long as all the other chapters, but I cannot for the life of me figure out a way to either condense it or break it up. There are flashbacks at the beginning and they're important for the whole chapter, and there is a LOT of emotional unpacking that absolutely must happen. I know I should just suck it up and post all 6,000 words of it, but I hate having one chapter be really unbalanced from the others.
How are things going with you? Share some dialogue and maybe how you handle mismatched chapters?
Ha ha, the funny thing is when it asked for narration a couple of weeks ago I was all "No, my dialogue is better!" But this week I went to find a bit of dialogue and OF COURSE now all my favorite WiP sections are narration. Anyway, here is a bit, which is not as dark as it sounds out of context:
“I wonder how you look with your eyes dark with fear.” Bruce’s murmur seemed to wander down his spine like silky claws. “Fear or desire, they can be so hard to tell apart sometimes. I wonder how you look with your fingers trembling.”
I'm frustrated also because the latest and penultimate chapter of my non-superhero WiP is twice as long as all the other chapters, but I cannot for the life of me figure out a way to either condense it or break it up. There are flashbacks at the beginning and they're important for the whole chapter, and there is a LOT of emotional unpacking that absolutely must happen. I know I should just suck it up and post all 6,000 words of it, but I hate having one chapter be really unbalanced from the others.
How are things going with you? Share some dialogue and maybe how you handle mismatched chapters?
