What problem does it solve?
Fiction writers often produce flat dialogue where characters explain the plot, sound identical to each other, or state emotions directly instead of dramatizing them. This Skill provides concrete craft rules for writing dialogue and emotional scenes that carry subtext, reveal character, and show feeling through action rather than summary.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Dialogue Function Rules: Ensures every line of dialogue serves at least one purpose such as probing, refusing, concealing, attacking, comforting, or advancing information, and prevents characters from explaining the setting on the author's behalf.
- Distinct Character Voices: Enforces differences in speech patterns based on each character's identity, relationships, and emotional state.
- Emotion Externalization: Requires every emotion word to be followed by a concrete action, object, or scene reaction, using short sentences and movement for intense feelings and specific details for settled ones.
- Use Case: When revising a confrontation scene between two characters, apply this Skill to replace stated feelings like "he was angry" with physical behavior and clipped dialogue that conveys the anger through subtext.
Quick Start
Use the dialogue-emotion skill to revise this scene so the characters' conflict comes through subtext, action, and distinct voices instead of stated emotions.
