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Appreciation post: I found a book at the library that said the average person speaks about 16,000 words a day
I was looking for a book on dialogue tips at the local library last Tuesday. I pulled out this old writing guide from the 90s and flipped to a random page. It had a line that said studies show most people say around 16,000 words daily, but only a fraction of those are unique or meaningful. It made me think about how much filler is in real conversation versus what we put in stories. Has anyone else found a random fact that made you rethink how you write dialogue?
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young.kim5d ago
That stat makes sense, my crew can talk a whole lot about nothing before we even start a job. Makes you wonder how much of that chatter you'd actually want to read in a book. I guess good dialogue is just the best bits of real talk.
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kaih365d ago
Bad dialogue is like listening to a boring phone call on the bus.
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the_kim4d ago
Ever notice how real life is mostly just filler talk?
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