Too realistic or too fake (foundation)

- Jo, what are we doing right now?…- Right now?…- Yeah.…- Well, we're drinking tea.…- What else?…- Well, we're supposed to be teaching a course.…- Yes, and...?…- I don't know, I give up.…- We're talking.…- Oh, how could I forget, we're always talking.…- Yes.…And when we talk about talking in fiction,…it's called dialogue.…- Of course, and everybody knows…that great dialogue makes great fiction.…- But, how do we write dynamic dialogue?…- Well, that's what this section is all about.…- [Brunette Instructor] The writer, Allison Amend,…once said this, in an essay about Dialogue in Fiction:…I've been a lot of bad dates.…

A lot.…Some were blind dates; some I wish I had been blind for.…But what amazes me is that the more I learn about fiction,…and the more I learn about dating,…the more they seem eerily parallel.…Why?…Because dialogue is they key to a successful date,…and, I would argue, to successful fiction.…There is nothing worse than sitting…over a plate of cooling penne with nothing to say,…and there is no substitute for the…