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we had a (creative) writing workshop once where they said "write the worst possible dialogue you can!" with the idea that then we would read them back, and it'd be stuff like "I love you! I'd die for you!" "But you killed for me - that's horrible!" etc and they'd point out it wasn't actually that bad with a few tweaks and a good performance.
I kinda saw that coming so I wrote stuff like,
"Zbijgl, my old fart, my favmamort n n n n number is 183442356742255214676213566873225566333543"
"But my cat food is singing, it goes anganganganganganganganganganga"
and they were forced to concede that yes, it is possible to write truly bad dialogue.
https://www.workableweb.com/_pages/tips_how_to_write_good.htm
Wow, thanks for the link, I bookmarked it. When it mentioned it was a satirical article, I was not expecting a masterclass. π
I imagine you haven't dabbled in Korean web novels, or some humour/parody comics.
Your Zbijgl and cat food lines are better than a lot of stuff I read before. Honestly, in the right context, they could work on something from Hitchhiker's Guide to The Shining.
I can almost hear them in an episode of JoJo or Cromartie High School
π Sounds cute.
Edit: today I will call someone my favmarmot to see their reaction.
I was thinking the same. Zbijgl could be a quote from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I know you referred to those two separately, but now they are canonically now a crossover
Not sure if you mean the crossover between Jojo and Cromartie, but I could only think of that conversation in the train, going like the root comment said.
Sorry, I am still bad (and lazy) at Krita.
Better than I am
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