- section 1 - Hello! Welcome to the first lesson (of this session). In this lesson, I'll be giving tips and teaching (hopefully) you how to get better (depends on what your skill is with this). I don't know everything, everyone can improve one way or another. I'll give you personal advice on how much you know, same with tips as well. I'll do my best with explaining it, it would be in the project as well if you rather look there instead of here, since I ramble a lot sometimes. I'll use examples from my books to help you and try to make bad examples to compare (to help make you understand how you can improve) but it would probably not be in the same genre as yours. - section 2 - So, for dialogue, which I'll cover the dialogue tags here too (somewhat), dialogue can have the tag at the beginning, split the dialogue in half, or at the end (examples would be shown later). Dialogue can show worldbuilding, but you can do it wrong. You can show your character(s) personality as well. Here's an example (sorry if it's kind of bad, I looked at my debut novel for inspo): "Why did Russia use a nuke on the United States?" Samuel asked. Felix looked at Samuel. "I don't know yet," Felix said at first, trying to pushing his memories back, "I haven't read any books about it or found any books yet about that." Samuel tilted his head before suggesting, "I found a whole section dedicated to World War 3..." Felix looked at Samuel, Felix didn't want to go into that section... This doesn't hold any lore to it (a little but not anything big to do any spoilers in the book). But you can tell that I used all three ways on where you can put dialogue tags in. You can put the dialogue tags in different spots but those three I use is the ones I know and use. About dialogue building worldbuilding, it can do that by a character (mentor or smth like that) telling another character (student or smth like that). It would be flat if the characters are talking about things that they haven't gotten there yet or telling something that the reader (or who ever is reading it). It wouldn't make sense for the scene or whatever you are doing with those characters. So, some people over rely on dialogues sometimes (and it's like on every line (just exaggerating but still). About character voice, if you want to know if each character have their own voice, then you can use the dialogue (without the tags at the end or where it is at) to see and have someone else read it, and you ask which dialogue belong to each character. - Homework/Pratice - So, the homework for this lesson is to have a scene with a mix of description, action [do it as much as you need], and dialogue [please put dialogue in quotes and put dialogue tags]. I'll help you by how you can improve, I'll grade it by letter grades (I'll put the letter grade at the beginning before I tell you how you can improve by doing this "[___]". If you want to pratice with dialogue, you can. Base the pratice of the homework but do as much description, action, and dialogue you want. You can show me it and I can help you on how you can improve. Remix to do homework/pratice. I'll try my best to see all your remixes. - other - If you are not apart of my class, please don't remix this project, but do it in a different project, but put my username so people know where you learn the needed infomation
[Ignore this if you did this lesson already and been here since the beginning] If you come to this lesson from the future, please tell me. If you want to do this, you may, you can still do it. You would still have a week to do homework. You can do this for fun.
