Unlock the Secret Power of Action and Dialogue to Transform Your Storytelling Forever
Action and Dialogue Working Together
Action and dialogue serve a story best when they work together and are interspersed in a smooth way. Characters do things while they talk. They eat, they pace, they make faces and gestures, they use body language. And characters talk while they do things. They chat while eating, working, and traveling.
Although some stories are successful with long sequences of dialogue that don’t include much action, scenes tend to come alive better in readers’ minds when chatter is interspersed with action. But as with all elements of storytelling, both the action and the dialogue should be necessary to the story and should move it forward in meaningful ways.


