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| Silence is Power | |
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| McPalmer | Mar 7 2011, 05:02 PM Post #1 |
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Illiterate Peasant
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Write a scene experimenting with pauses and silences in dialogue. Get a feel for how it can cut into a scene with a fast-paced, clipped, rhythm and enhance the tension of the scene. See how long you can feasibly draw out a conversation that would have taken just a couple of pages without pause. Take a piece you've already written or a short section of one and try inserting long silences where you wouldn't have initially. See what happens. |
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