| "As You Know, Bob." - When Exposition
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| | hands. We have several vitamin
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| Masquerades as Dialogueby: TK Kenyon
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| | deficiencies, and you've been picking
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| Author of RABID, coming in 2007 from
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| | your nose this whole time. Stop it, or
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| Kunati Books
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| | I'm going to kill you!"
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| If your dialogue sounds too stilted, you
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| | Or:
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| may have exposition passing itself off as
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| | Dramatized exposition, and one line of
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| dialogue. Dialogue's one and only purpose
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| | dialogue: Ted pounded the coconut open
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| is to elucidate the tension between
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| | with a rock. It wasn't quite ripe yet,
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| characters. It is not, ever, to convey
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| | but he was so tired of fish, and his
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| information. A bad example of what I
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| | fingernails stung in the salt water where
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| mean:
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| | they cracked and peeled.
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| Exposition masquerading as dialogue: "As
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| | Bob sat on the beach a few yards away. He
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| you know, Bob, we've been stuck on this
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| | was picking his nose again. Again.
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| desert island for twenty years, eating
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| | "Stop it!" Ted screamed and picked up the
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| only the coconuts that grow on the one
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| | rock he had used to smash the green
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| tree and fish which we catch with our
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| | coconut into meaty fragments.
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