Can write good dialogue and have a good understanding of characterisation, plotting and themes

>Can write good dialogue and have a good understanding of characterisation, plotting and themes
>Can write detailed plans of novels including extensive character notes and detailed plot outlines
>tfw bad prose

Should I just give up now?

If you're seeking advice from elitists, you already know the answer.

Elitists give better advice than sycophants.

The problem is that Veeky Forums is made up of elitists who for the most part don't read.

>Can write good dialogue and have a good understanding of characterisation

these are your only strengths, from what you've said

>Can write detailed plans of novels including extensive character notes and detailed plot outlines

anyone can

>tfw bad prose

if your dialogue is actually good and not just not-cringey, you have potential. try minimal prose, like Erlend Loe or something. if it's terribly bad and not just bland, try plays instead.

I wouldn't say it's great but I think I manage to find a good balance between naturalism and stylism whilst preserving individual character voices. I've written a few dialogue heavy short stories but I really struggle with scenes without dialogue to build around. I just can't help but make it either a dull chore or incomprehensible.

if you're so good at dialogue why don't you try writing a play then, faggot

Story and prose are the same. Hard to take anything you say as true when you don't know even this fundamental truth of Literature.

Theatre is a dead medium tbqh

SCREENWRITNG

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Quit writing plot outlines and just focus on the prose. Force it out of you. It's one of the most tedious parts of writing but you shouldn't try to avoid it.

This or become a playwright.
No, they're the different aspects of the same thing. But you're right in a way.

I don't avoid it, I just can't really do it in an interesting or engaging way.

All art is dead

>tfw I can everything everything except dialogue fairly well
GOOD GOD
All of my characters sound the same but when I try to fix it they become cringey as fuck
What do I do

Post a sample of it. Maybe you're being a drama queen bitchboy.

Listen to how people actually talk the next time you go outside or watch random fucks talking on YouTube.

Look at J. K. Rowling and George R. R. Martin.
Look at J. R. R. Tolkien and H. P. Lovecraft.
Look at Frank Herbert and John Milton

Milton had prose? Or is the joke that he was a poet.

>Posting your writing on Veeky Forums

Nah pham

>I can everything everything

Tl;dr, but Karl Pinkington definitely did not write or say that. An Idiot Abroad tells me he's terrible; and I experience great Schaudenfreude at that thought.

I'm not telling you to post anything you'll actually use. Just quickly write up a paragraph that you think is representative of your overall style if you want feedback.

>being scared someone will rip off your terrible writing

the sign of an amateur

I have a decent prose but I suck at dialogues, I can't make them feel natural at all.

For the most part I avoid them, I imply them, but when I really have to use dialogues I can't make the characters different between themselves in their forms of speech, they speak like they were the same person, they don't feel moved at all for what the other characters tell them because it's like they knew what they were going to say.

Kind of shows how few dialogues I had irl ;_;

He plays a character, dummy
Also, try not being a bitter cunt

if you want to test out your dialogue, try writing plays or screen/teleplays. it's much easier to describe the setting when you're doing so objectively. start with the visuals and then gradually appeal to the other senses where you feel it might count, such as the smell in the air in a war scene, or the sounds a sailor might hear at a local dock. weave it in between the dialogue and, oh shit, look at that, you have prose!

sorry, I'm new to Veeky Forums and literature in general

what's ""prose""

in fiction it's just the written story all put together on paper. OP's problem is that he has a story in his head but he can't write it very well

Prose generally refers to how good the writing sounds and reads