Narrative Basics Lesson 4: Speech and Dialogue

“Phew! What a big lesson!”

“I know, right? Who would have thought speech and dialogue could be so complicated?”

“Hopefully it was worth it!”

“I hope so too. See ya!”

“Bye!

Where did the snippets come from?

We used a lot of extracts from Mango Delight, by Fracaswell Hyman, which is about a middle-school girl who falls out with her BFF, and gets into a new friendship that is not nearly as good.

At the opposite end of the emotional spectrum, All American Boys, by Jason Reynolds and Brendon Kiely, is a novel about two American teenage boys—one black, one white—who get caught on opposite sides of police brutality.

The Suburb Beyond the Stars is part of a strange-cool-weird adventure series called The Norumbegan Quartet, by M.T. Anderson. It's about a couple of friends who become critical players in a gigantic conspiracy/war/game between two ancient alien civilisations.

Where did the inspiration images come from?

The main inspiration image comes from Erasmus Brosdau, a German sci-fi artist who's worked on Metal Gear Solid.

The checkpoint inspiration image comes from Sylvain Sarrailh, a game artist who does beautiful, chewy, colourful environments.

When we were writing the first example, about the clever Gobgap, we were looking at this image from a Thai character designer called Gop Gap (we liked the name, so we tweaked it for the main character). Gop Gap does these great storybook style images that have lots of texture and colour.

And for the examples about Carmen and Eliza and their friends, we were looking at this photo, but we're not sure where it came from.

That's it for this lesson. It's been a big one! 

See you next time.