: Re: Is dialogue in a novel necessary, or just padding? I can usually tell the story I want to in less than 10,000 words. I'd really like to accomplish writing a novel and I have a complex idea

@Sarah872

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Dialogues are not easy to write. Bad dialogues are easy to write.
I use dialogues a lot and I think they - if well used - can make a text richer.

My answer to you is: depends on the writer's style.

In my case, since I really like dialogues, it's essential.
Other writers may almost don't use dialogues at all.

Of course you can insert dialogues inside paragraphs and reduce the padding a lot, or you can create dialogues in context where the real dialogue does not appears at all. There are a lot of ways to do the same thing. Chase the ones you want and follow that path.

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