Everyday dialogue is passé. We all know that people, like characters, tend to speak about the weather. This kind of elementary dialogue just adds words to the manuscript and does not enhance the story line. Dialogue should relay some information about the character. Instead of one character making observations on the weather like, ‘It is freezing outside.’ How about ‘When it is cold like this, it reminds me of the time when my mother used to make us hot chocolate, while she took a shot of liquor from the cupboard.” Here we learn a little more about the character and we are even a little curious about her mother and want to read on. Flirt with dialogue… Dialogue should be sexy and engaging. Instead of a flat phrase like ‘
What would you like to do tonight?’ How about ‘Up for a game of strip poker Professor Bailey?’

Of course there are some writers who use as little dialogue as possible. But what is life if we couldn’t speak; or if all of the world happens inside our consciousness and not expressed—yes, drab, very drab indeed. So is writing without dialogue. Let’s here it for dialogue that dances and takes the reader on a journey that they would not like to end…