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Dialogue chunks - please give some feedback.

Alright - so I have just had a few bursts of inspiration for my sitcom "Suburban Bohemia" - about contemporary performance/arts company doing a prject in a regional city.
I have numbered each bit.

#1
Lily: That's an ace look on your Facebook.

Xander: Thanks, I got you email on the gmail!

#2
(At the counter of a liquor store)

Lily: I'm lookinf for a man- he came in - he's pale - he's fat...

Xander: Lily, I'm here.

Lily: We need Gin, have you got Gin.

Xander: It's a board meeting, not a piss-up.

Lily: Keep it social, Xander...

Xander: That's why I've got the wine.

Lily: Get some Gin!

Xander: We're over budget.

Lily: Put some wine back

Xander: We've spent all the food money.

Lily: Just shut up and buy it.

Xander: You're an alcoholic, Lily.

Lily: (seeing people staring) Well, why are you here?

#3

Melanie: What is it?

Xander: It's the North Queensland Arts and Culture Awards Dinner.

Lily: So?

Melanie: Will there be press?

Lily: Only the local rags.

Xander: All of the local rags, Lily.

Jac: The good ones. The ones you find in galleries.

Xander: The ones that only go to good suburbs.

Jac: And national ones...

Xander: Because of the celebrity guests.

Melanie: Celebrity guests?

Xander: Other than us.

Melanie: the plebs here don't know who we are, Xander.

Melanie: Big celebrity guests?

Jac: Flying in.

Melanie: I've got to choose a dress.

Xander: Hollywood theme...

Lily: Tacky.

Xander: We'll be arriving in a limo, photogs waiting to snap.

Melanie: I am so not wearing underwear to this! (Exitis)

Jac: It'll be the AFI (Or BAFTA) awards all over again.

Lily: Upstaged by her crotch.

Jac: It should have an agent.

Xander: We'll, she's not as dumb as she looks.

Lily: She showed her cunning that night.

#4

(Xander and Lily are arguing at a function that they have organised.)

Lily: How much are you charging for this.

Xander Eighty dollars.

Lily: Not enough.

Xander: We want it to be accessible.

Lily: No one's going to think you're serious for under a hundred!

Xander: You think?

Lily: Xander, this is the frigging rich end of town that we're hitting.

Xander: Yeah...

Lily: Doctors, Lawyers, their wives! Business!

Xander: Should've charged moe...

lily: Look at those rich bitches...

Xander: Fat cat husbands...

Lily: Charge the bastards, Xander...

Xander: Yeah, you lot could've offered more, you know!

Both: Capitalist Bastards!

Xander: No, we're kidding, we're just the entertainment, but I want you to know that you've got a good deal here!

Anyone?

Stick them in an actual scene. You can't really tell much from a few chunks of dialogue until you see them in context. Next you'll be posting a comma and semi colon and wanting feedback on them! ;)

I will get there. I usually have an outline of what will happend in the epsiode and chunks of dialogue in which the characters discuss/argue about the various obstacles/plot points. Writing the bits that establish/join them together is usually the last step for me!
I hope some of the dialogue was a least funny.

Quote: ToddB @ March 21 2011, 1:09 PM GMT

I will get there. I usually have an outline of what will happend in the epsiode and chunk of dialogue in which the chearcters discuss/argue about the various obstacles/plot points. Writing the bits that establish/join them together is usually the last step for me!
I hope some of the dialogue was a least funny.

Fair enough. But I'd post it after that last step! :)

Will do - meanwhile, I need to correct the typos in my posts - what is with that tonight? :D

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