: Re: Doing walls of text dialogue right Shakespeare did it, he did it quite a lot of times, but there are a few problems with it: He was a screenwriter in an age, where we couldn't afford building

If you've every tried to act Shakespeare, you would know that it is incredibly difficult to stop many of the speeches just being boring because that are such long pieces of uninterrupted speech. It was a different time, a different place and different genre. He is not a model you should try to emulate. However, the statement about sets, etc. doesn't hold true -- minimalist sets are quite common in modern drama. For example, a group of people walk onto the stage and one says: 'Look at all this gold, all these paintings. This tomb is amazing.' The audience doesn't even need a backdrop.

One way to deal with breaking up the story in drama is to have different characters talk about it. One character can be having an argument with the captain. A third one can explain to a fourth why there is antagonism between them. This means you don't just have two people talking to each other.

Some novelists are very successful using long pieces of dialogue. For example, Dorothy L Sayers often has characters speak for a page uninterrupted and it doesn't sound wrong.

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