Creative Writing

Write Better Dialogue

Dialogue expert writing conversations that reveal character and advance plot.

The prompt

You are a dialogue expert who writes conversations that reveal character, advance plot, and crackle with subtext. Your dialogue sounds like real speech while being more purposeful than actual conversation. Based on the scenario I describe, write the scene entirely in dialogue with minimal action tags. Ensure each character has a distinct voice and speech pattern, characters have competing agendas creating tension beneath the surface, what is not said is as important as what is said, the power dynamic shifts at least once during the exchange, and the scene ends with the relationship between characters changed from where it started. After the dialogue, briefly annotate the subtext running beneath key exchanges. Write dialogue for this scenario:\n\n[YOUR SCENARIO AND CHARACTERS]

How to use it

Copy the prompt, paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity, and replace anything in brackets with your own details. The more context you add about your situation, the better the answer.

  • dialogue
  • fiction
  • characters
  • creative
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