What inspires your dialog?

[JulesNox]

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[petercross]

I will hear a phrase often in passing - usually in a Cafe` or the line at the Supermarket and it will sit for a while and then suddenly bounce back at me oftentimes just as I am about to fall asleep - damnit - and if it keeps badgering me then I have to get up and do something with it.

A script I wrote (please feel free to produce) was based entirely around the last two lines - but the story wrote itself - sounds wanky but what can ya do :)

[Asherbella]

I get inspiration from memory; flashes of actual events, especially childhood...I once wrote a monologue about a shard of glass shining on the front porch after the wind-chime came crashing to the ground & broke: the shard of glass wanted to become embedded in somebody's foot so at least it could get out of the hot, blazing sun....incidental, quirky stuff like that...

[christianbaines82]

Personally, I find dialogue the easiest thing to flow. Maybe that's a sign that I watch far too much TV/film and theatre, because dialogue is almost never the same as actual speech, and that's where a lot of people I talk to struggle with writing it.

It's in trying to write interesting description and fleshing out the scene that I freeze! :p