Dialogue is so awkward in novels with all the "he said, she said" repeated throughout. This is the main reason why I'll never write a book. It's simply not a good medium for dialogue heavy prose. So what alternatives do I have? A screenplay that will never be made into a film? A poem? Nothing really works. I might have to make a comic.
What books handle character dialogue well? Maybe I can learn from them.
you're a bad reader and writer
Seconding this.
same with gaddis and joyce
(OP)
I'm sorry to out myself as a fucking weeb trash pleb, but in Japanese Light Novels that are really dialogue intensive they leave out all (or almost all) the 'saids' and just make it clear from context.
>X turned around and looked at her
>"You didn't have anything to do with this did you?"
>"Nuh-no! of course not!"
This is done in many good books too. I don't know what type of books OP is reading.
Clearly never even read Lolita and wants to write
kek
fallada sometimes mutes one voice and it feels like halflife dialogues or other FPS with mute player, or like a surreal close up on the mouth in a movie. another thing he does: convincing situations where people talking past each other because of different emotional states or social backgrounds, charles portis does this too.
This but I wasn't use Light Novels as the best example. Good dialogue should be revealing of a character - a writer who spells it out too often is poor and a reader who fails to understand it is likewise. It's the same reason that adding constant adverbs or excessive characterisation to speech as fallen out of fashion, things like "exclaimed" or "snorted" should be obvious by context. Further, you can even break up your speech with action, which is another layer to show character, something like: "I don't like," he ate, "to speak with a full-mouth".
OP is a fag.
It's all about "he said, she said" bullshit!