- 01 Jul 2021 14:54
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Me neither. Lol. But you don't spend decades of your life writing screenplays without picking up a few tricks of the trade, and knowing how to write snappy dialogue is one of those tricks. His characters reveal themselves through what they say, and how they say it. Most novelists have to laboriously explain it all to us in their plodding prose, whereas Martin just presents a few lines of snappy, unforgettable dialogue, and we know.
fuser wrote:I didn't knew he was a screenwriter. Just checked and it seems he did TV mostly and I haven't seen any one of them.
Me neither. Lol. But you don't spend decades of your life writing screenplays without picking up a few tricks of the trade, and knowing how to write snappy dialogue is one of those tricks. His characters reveal themselves through what they say, and how they say it. Most novelists have to laboriously explain it all to us in their plodding prose, whereas Martin just presents a few lines of snappy, unforgettable dialogue, and we know.
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