Character Development / Short Story / Sullatober Dalton

Conversation only story

I am working at a story for a Writing Magazine competition that will be all dialogue. Not so easy. No adding, I said, or Jim came in and mentioned. The action has to come from what people say. So, when do we have that situation? In a car going somewhere – ‘Watch that truck!’ ‘It’s parked in a driveway’ etc. The first thing is that it needs to be clear who is talking. I did a bit in America for Bees in my BOnnet where the three people were from different areas in America and that was easy, You all and so on. If I stick to two then it will be easier. They can be going to visit and discuss their friends, how they met etc. and make a drama from there. They could be going to something like a funeral and discuss how the person died and how they had been treated by their family. Thinking like that leads me to a discussion at a will reading, where there could be an argument about who did what, or make that a discussion about where to scatter Jim’s ashes, the discussion would follow his career and marriage – maybe the discussion could be a second wife and a first, that would have drama built in. A common accent and a refined one. Do the women agree or fall out? Already uncertainty! It might not be so bad after all.