5 Ways to Write Better Dialogue for Your Kindle Book

Writing engaging, compelling dialogue seems simple enough, but there are a handful of common traps you can easily fall into. In this article, I'm going to breakdown what these traps are and how you can avoid them.

1.   Keep It Brief And Avoid Small Talk

Unlike dialogue in real life, dialogue in your book needs to be brief and impactful. Try and only write dialogue that adds to the story and the scene. Writing small talk in the dialogue is very tempting but try and avoid this.

2. Say It Out Loud

Saying the dialogue you have written out loud is the best way to find out if it actually works and meets the purpose you intended it to. However, do remember that the dialogue you write for the book is not supposed to mimic real-life conversation completely.

3.  Give Each Character A Unique Voice.

Make sure you give each of your main characters a distinct and unique voice in your dialogue, this is very important in helping your reader differentiate between characters in the book as well as to more effectively paint a vivid image of the characters in your reader's mind.

4.   Cut Out Greetings.

Unless they really do add to the story and are needed for some particularly important reason, cut out greetings from your Kindle book dialogue to make it punchier and more interesting.

5.   Be Consistent.

Unless they really do add to the story and are needed for some particularly important reason, cut out greetings from your Kindle book dialogue to make it punchier and more interesting.