: Re: Using too much dialogue? I'm working on a novel of my own and, looking back at the bits of it I have so far brought into light, that almost everything in it is dialogue. Is this a bad

Welcome to SE.

Others have said this, but it bears repeating: The purpose of non-dialog portions of a story are to provide context, setting, interiority (thoughts, emotions), and so forth. Too much dialog means you probably have too little of something else.

Of course the approach can work... See the first chapter (Chapter A) of New York 2140. All dialog, almost all of it, and a grand total of only two or three attribution tags, but it works. The writing is fully intentional on the part of the author, and Chapter B is a different style altogether (and a different viewpoint.)

My answer, without seeing the excerpt, is: Probably you have a 'bad thing' in your draft, yes.

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