Dialogue for Multiple Characters
Confession: When I wrote my first few short stories and a full novel draft, I constructed my scenes so that they’d have only two characters each.
I was terrified to write dialogue for more than two characters. As hard as it was for me to write realistic dialogue between two people, I just couldn’t imagine scenes in which more people talked with each other.
I had so many questions. How could I keep track of three or more characters? If I, as the writer, had trouble doing so, how would my readers keep track?
I knew that, eventually, I’d have to figure out how to write multiple character scenes—including dialogue—if I wanted to
