Is anyone else doing it? It's mostly a 'for fun' thing, but they'll be posting entries and talking about them at Writing Excuses... if they get the forums back up (last I knew they weren't yet).
Brandon Sanderson's SF Dialogue Challenge
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http://brandonsanderson.com/blog/947/Writing-Exercise-Dialogue
There's the link to the exercise, if anyone's interested.
There's the link to the exercise, if anyone's interested.
Now I've got to try this...
The story he links to as all-dialogue works, though, because any text/tags would ruin the story...now I've got to do a lot of thinking, trying to come up with a story where no prose makes sense...
The story he links to as all-dialogue works, though, because any text/tags would ruin the story...now I've got to do a lot of thinking, trying to come up with a story where no prose makes sense...
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A very interesting proposition. One I might take a shot at.
There's only one slight problem: The longest story he links to is a little less than 2 1/2 pages, and he wants 5-10?
There's only one slight problem: The longest story he links to is a little less than 2 1/2 pages, and he wants 5-10?
I actually had to do this in a writing workshop once, and found it a good exercise. I might give it another go!
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I know that he's going for 5-10 pages from everybody. He says it very clearly right in the post:
Brandon Sanderson said:
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Yeah -- I'm a pro at dialogue (or at least I'd like to think it's a strength of mine) and even I balk at the idea of 10 pages of nothing but dialogue!
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Wow...five pages with no tags, no blocking and no long monologues.
Interesting, but I feel it would bore me as a reader fairly quickly.
But that is just my taste in reading a mixture of scene, action and dialogue...
Interesting, but I feel it would bore me as a reader fairly quickly.
But that is just my taste in reading a mixture of scene, action and dialogue...
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I tweeted Brandon about a story I'd had published through Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show that was pure dialogue (and he was kind enough to use it as an example of this kind of storytelling). For anyone interested, it's linked here: http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=issue&vol=i16&article=_003
Odd Jobs was a lot of fun to write, and the style was actually somewhat inspired by Terry Bisson's "They are Made Out of Meat," another all-dialogue offering that I found brilliant.
Odd Jobs was a lot of fun to write, and the style was actually somewhat inspired by Terry Bisson's "They are Made Out of Meat," another all-dialogue offering that I found brilliant.
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Mine's at the top of that page, actually.
I just read it; it's really good.
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I'm gonna do this.. but just for myself... don't feel like sharing, I'm all emo and stuff right now! (and badly out of practice)
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I'm gonna do this.. but just for myself... don't feel like sharing, I'm all emo and stuff right now! (and badly out of practice)
Same. It'll be a good exercise, anyway!
Thank you! The idea's been around for a while, it's one of my top three projects-- Crime Noir with Artificial Life, with a steampunk bent.
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