What skills are there to describe the dialogue between characters in writing novels?

Character dialogue is a language description.

First, language should be able to express the identity, occupation, status and experience of the characters.

Second, language description should be able to express the thoughts and feelings of the characters and reflect their psychological activities.

Third, the language description should be personalized and conform to the identity of the characters. In the process of describing voice and narrative dialogue, we should show the personality characteristics of "this one"

Fourth, language description should also be used to predict and promote the development of the story, explain the ins and outs of things, or introduce the environment or background of the times through language description, or comment through the mouth of characters, deepen the theme, and make language description an organic part of the work.

Language description is an important means to shape characters. Successful language description always vividly expresses characters' personalities, vividly expresses their thoughts and feelings, profoundly reflects their inner world, and makes readers "listen to their voices and see their people" and gain a deep impression.

Extended data

First, the novel:

A literary genre that mainly depicts characters and reflects social life through complete stories and environmental descriptions.

Character, plot and environment are the three elements of a novel. The plot generally includes four parts: beginning, development, climax and ending, and some also include prologue and ending. Environment includes natural environment and social environment. ?

Novels can be divided into novels, novellas, short stories and mini-novels (short stories) according to their length and capacity. According to the performance content, it can be divided into science fiction, case-solving, legend, martial arts, romance, fan, official and so on.

According to the system, it can be divided into chapter novels, diary novels, epistolary novels and autobiographical novels. According to language forms, it can be divided into classical Chinese novels and vernacular novels. Novel, poetry, prose and drama are also called "four major literary genres".

Second, the method of portraying characters in novels:

Psychological description, action description, language description, appearance description and expression description. At the same time, novel is a writing method.

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