Writing All Dialogue Stories by Allison Symes
Image Credit: Images created in Book Brush using Pixabay photos. I sometimes write all dialogue flash fiction. It’s an interesting challenge. It works best kept short. I usually come in at 300 words or under for this kind of writing. I have a soft spot for writing dialogue so this is fun to do. I have to watch myself for conversational ping-pong as I could get my characters talking and talking and talking! But for this kind of story I can do that and get away with it by keeping it to the point. These stories are often ones where I know what the last line will be first. This is sometimes a humorous punchline or a twist ending but I then work out my story backwards to get a to a logical starting point. What led to this conversation finishing with this ending? These tales are best limited to two characters (though I sometimes get either or both to refer to others who are “off stage” but are clearly contributing to the story in their absence). I name my characters early and repeat na...