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You don’t have to know who the characters are, where they are, or why they’re at odds. Forty Dialogue Exercisesīelow are forty dialogue exercises. Now, here’s your chance to try your hand. Just because you say I wouldn’t have doesn’t prove anything.”Īs you read this excerpt from Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” does the dialogue pull you along? Are you reading to find out what’s up? Of course, you are! In this post I’m bringing them onstage again, but stripping out the “he saids” and “she saids.” In my post on “Dialogue and Tension: Bringing Scenes to Life,” I introduced a man and a girl waiting for a train. What do you think? Do they look like white elephants? In Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” a man and girl are waiting in Ebro for the train. Sometimes, looking at a photo or an art object can help you get started with a story.
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