Tell Me More
It is as important for readers to understand who is speaking as it is for the dialogue between characters to be believable. We humans don't speak properly. We use slang and don't follow the rules of speech most of the time. Sentences may seem incomplete to a word processor's spell and grammar check, but to us, they're completely understandably. When you're writing dialogue you want it to be believable to readers. If it's stiff and formal readers won't buy into it and they won't want to read it. The characters may end up being flat and boring to them. The following is a conversation in a novel that I've written (ok, partially written that is sitting unfinished somewhere in my files) Lia's brother, Marcello, is the head of an organized crime family. He's guilted her into remaining at his side and working for him. Now he feels she's obsolete, but she knows too much about his operations to let her walk away. Jerome is her bodyguard and he i
