A Quick Tip

Here's a quick tip for writing dialogue.  Once you've completed a scene, go back through the scene and see how many of the questions can be turned into statements.  This will do two very important things.  First, it should create more conflict in the scene and, secondly, your scene should become more active.  Oftentimes a scene with a lot of questions in it is just a lazy way for a writer to get information across to an audience.  Unless you're writing some kind of court room drama or interrogation scene try to stay away from all of the questions.  Try this little trick.  I hope you'll be pleasantly surprised.

P.S.  I received a little surprise of my own yesterday.  One of my screenplays has been optioned so, there's always reason to hope...just tell the story.