3 Pages

So... 3 pages. That doesn't sound like much but it took me the better part of 2 hours to prepare and write 3 pages... that brings my page total to a whopping 8!

I have now hit a dilema... Dun Dun Dun.... (I love doing that lol).... DIALOGUE.

This issue of Dialogue when writing a story really has me stumped. I'm trying hard not to write like a two year old... "He said blah blah blah, then she said blah blah blah"... GAH! How do you write good convincing dialogue without coming off lame. And how do you make sure your characters have a different voice. And how do I write it so it flows nicely.

This has been the minds dilemma for about 24 hours. I wrote some dialogue and am stumped. I'm also stumped at creating a dialogue between people that doesn't go directly to the point. What I have written I know I'm going to need to change. Now should I leave it and keep writing, and come back to revise it later? Or should I keep tweaking it but suffer with the fact that I may not pass page 8 for a while?

I would guess that continuing to write would be the best method, and when I get more inspired about the depth of the dialogue I should then revise it. Heck I'm sure I'll easily add a page when I revise it, so that will be a whopping 9 instead... oh so close to the elusive page 10.

Now I haven't totally decided the overall length of this story. If it'll be a short story or more novel-ish (or would that be called something else? Maybe a novella??), either way it's difficult to decide. I have most of the plotting for this story, or at least the general idea. But it's my first written story and I always find I lack a bit of immagination.

Well, I'll keep you posted on the intermittent story writing. Other than that my rainy day bbq on the weekend went well. I'll post further on that tomorrow. For now it's late and my bed calls me :)