Beta Reading

1) Does dialogue contribute to or take away from the story?

Dialogue can be a very important part to book, allowing the reader to clearly identify the thoughts drifting through the characters in the book. While, it is an important it can begging to overshadow the actual events taking place. It can begging to overshadow and become very overused if the reader in unaware the situation. The eighth chapter clearly begins with an action/event relating to Dorothy and swiftly drifted to dialogue between her and her best friend Stella. The beginning of the dialogue between the two best friends started casual and the drifted into something more than a conversation, something like a very long conversation. The dialogue in the chapter is really long, and since dialogue is always held between two or more people it always jumps between the people talking. I became slightly overwhelmed in comprehending what the actual two people were saying throught the conversation. The dialogues is roughly four pages. In a way it may be a lot to handle in that small portion of a chapter.

Even though, the dialogue may be slightly long it became a little light  and changed in the sense where  thoughts were incorporated thought more in depth.  There wee many sections incorporated between the dialogue where there was writing to state the meaning of what they were saying, giving the sufficient amount of background information. As the background information was incorporated top the dialogue, it the amount of dialogue seem slightly less dramatic. To make an improvement in the way where the dialogue does not extremely over shadow the main key components of the book could be by limiting the actual amount that is incorporated. Condensing the dialogue could help to swiftly guide the reader. the dialogue could be condensed by decreasing the amount and taking unnecessary components that are unimportant in the way where it does not ultimately change the way the characters are talking and interacting. With decreasing the level of the dialogue, the reader can clearly focus on the main ideas and the point of the dialogue rather than drifting away with the little unnecessary points.