The document provides suggestions for writing dialogue in a journal, including listening to real conversations, writing imagined dialogues based on photos or muted TV scenes, or an imaginary dialogue between the writer and someone they need or want to talk to. It also includes a brief example dialogue overheard at a tennis club about the rainy weather.
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See if you can focus on dialogue this week in your journal entries.docx
1. See if you can focus on dialogue this week in your journal
entries. Listen to the dialogue around you. It doesn't have to be
a long dialogue. One writer overheard two men talking at the
local tennis club. He wrote in his journal this brief exchange:
"Sure is raining out there."
"Yeah, we got real duck weather on our hands."
Other ideas:
Find a photograph (or a newspaper advertisement) featuring two
people. Write a dialogue between the two people, based on the
situation or emotion you see.
Turn on the TV to a weekly drama and then turn the sound on
mute. Listen for a few minutes and then write the dialogue you
think is going on.
Write an imaginary dialogue between you and someone you
need to speak to but are afraid to - or they are far away.