𝐋𝐄𝐓'𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐍 𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐈𝐈, 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐓 𝐈
↳ 𝖴𝗌𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖢𝗈𝗋𝗋𝖾𝖼𝗍 𝖦𝗋𝖺𝗆𝗆𝖺𝗋
𝙄𝙉 this unit we will discuss the basics and essential of beginning the process of writing your book. So let's proceed to lesson III.
I want to start this lesson of by discussing a 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 important variable when beginning your story. . .
𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑 !
Remember in Lesson I , where we discussed the correct ways to present your dialogue and spelling?
→ Let's go more in depth and dive into these topics :
➥ 𝐃𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒
𝘮𝘤(𝘴) = 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳(𝘴)
❏ 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 &' 𝐐𝐔𝐎𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒.
↳ Like we addressed in the Lesson I, your story is the most pleasing and presentable when correct dialogue is being used, along with the proper usage of quotation. We want to stray away from "text talk" and screenplay style writing.
➥ 𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐒
↳ 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘈: 𝘏𝘦𝘺, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶
𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘉: 𝘐'𝘮 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶
→ This is a screenplay style form of dialogue, now as I try to stress in every chapter, this is your story! You can write it how you like, I'm just here to give you guidance 👀. Also, I'm sure there is a whole genre and
collection of screenplay style books on this app!
↳ 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘈: 𝘏𝘦𝘺, 𝘩𝘳𝘶?
𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘉: 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘩𝘣𝘶.
⟶ This is an example of "text talk", now this form of dialogue can be used when you are showing your mcs having a literal text conversation. However, personally I feel seeing this style throughout an entire book would get annoying, look unprofessional, and could be hard to read for some.
➥ 𝐋𝐄𝐓'𝐒 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐈𝐓
You want your story/plot to be easy to follow for your readers. Dialogue is a big part of keeping the flow of your story together. 80-90% of your book has the potential to be of your character's having conversations, internal dialogue, etc. So if your readers are struggling to understand simple conversations, they might struggle to fully understand the plot, character relationships, etc.
After you have settled on how you want to formate your dialogue, you should then begin focusing on other aspects of grammar to insure that your language will be clear, coherent, and comprehensive throughout your book(s).
This brings us to spelling, punctuation, and overall grammatical errors.
❏ 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 &' 𝐏𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍
↳ Though spelling and punctuation are considered separate from grammar, for the sake of time and my laziness we will be putting them together :)
↳ You often see disclaimers in the beginning or end of some author's chapters saying to "excuse any mistakes" for that chapter. This is completely fine, you could be trying to push out updates but, you don't have the time to completely proof read, that is okay! (𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴)
