Dialogue for Writers: Create Powerful Dialogue in Fiction and Nonfiction by Sammie Justesen

Author:Sammie Justesen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: NorLightsPress
Published: 2014-04-14T00:00:00+00:00

Internal monologues

Revealing a character’s thoughts with internal monologues is another way to build tension and suspense. Like movies, books allow the reader to climb inside someone else’s brain. If you’ve watched the movie Stranger Than Fiction, you’ll know exactly what I mean. Every writer should see this movie, in which Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) hears an author (played by Emma Thompson) narrating his life. Imagine hearing this inside your head:

Voice of Karen ‘Kay’ Eiffel: This is a story about a man named Harold Crick and his wristwatch. Harold Crick was a man of infinite numbers, endless calculations, and remarkably few words. And his wristwatch said even less. Every weekday, for twelve years, Harold would brush each of his thirty-two teeth seventy-six times. Thirty-eight times back and forth, thirty-eight times up and down. Every weekday, for twelve years, Harold would tie his tie in a single Windsor knot instead of the double, thereby saving up to forty-three seconds. His wristwatch thought the single Windsor made his neck look fat, but said nothing.

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