Dialogue-Writing Exercises [2015]
Here are prompts for the 1st annual GITS Dialogue-Writing Challenge. Use these to improve your dialogue writing chops.
A character learns s/he has a terminal illness
A character tries to communicate something important to someone who speaks very little English
A character uses their smartphone voice memo.
A character uses voice-over narration in a scene
A conversation involving texting
A ‘conversation’ one character has with someone buried in a grave
A new member of a support group reluctantly introduces him/herself… and their addictions
A scene built around the line “You need to get out”
A scene in which characters can say no more than five words per side
A scene with a psychiatrist and a client
After receiving disturbing personal news, a character has to deal with a demanding customer
An argument where no one actually gets to finish a sentence
An argument with an inanimate object
Two characters flirt at a drive-thru window
Two characters say goodbye to each other for good
Two children, one of whom just found out her father is leaving her mother