Discussion only short story

[Dreamerman77]

Lot of ideas cruising around in my head.

The latest is to write a story that is solely composed of discussion. Anybody ever write something like this? I'd be happy to read if you have examples.

Could be a challenge also?

Good lines and discussion in a story make it alive and they are also fun to listen.

 

[Dreamerman77]

By discussion I mean dialogue. Pardon my English.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I did a story in Transcripts that is nearly entirely dialogue. It's not terribly well read.

 

[Dreamerman77]

I did a story in Transcripts that is nearly entirely dialogue. It's not terribly well read.

Found it. Thanks for the tip, I'll add it to my Read Later list.

I was thinking that in addition to dialogue tags and descriptions of emotions or expressions could be used.

 

[NotWise]

Dialog is my Swiss army knife, but dialog with explicit sex descriptions? I'll have to think about that.

 

[PennyThompson]

I have a couple of 750-word shorts that are dialog only, What Develops is a dialog between two characters, and Suburban Venus Lingerie is a monologue by a single character!

 

[NotWise]

I just put a short one in @StillStunned's Writing Exercise thread. Here.

 

[JGittes]

Dialog is my Swiss army knife, but dialog with explicit sex descriptions? I'll have to think about that.

It is difficult.

I'm working on a story (hopefully for Nude Day) that involves a sort-of three-way between the FMC, MMC, and another female listening over the phone. The long-distance participant demanded verbal descriptions of the action.

It took a lot of writing and rewriting.

 

[NotWise]

Having sex and talking coherently at the same time is a challenge. Writing it would be worse.

 

[HectorBidon]

One (non-erotic) story I enjoyed that used dialogue quite effectively to reveal character was Play Date by Salish.

 

[StillStunned]

I have a WIP that's purely dialogue, but only one person's side of it.

 

[Dreamerman77]

Having sex and talking coherently at the same time is a challenge. Writing it would be worse.

The sex will undoubtedly be less specific in details, but could leave more room for the reader's imagination. Good or bad? probably depends on the reader.

 

[Dreamerman77]

One (non-erotic) story I enjoyed that used dialogue quite effectively to reveal character was Play Date by Salish.

Thank you for the tip.

 

[Rustyoznail]

I've done a couple of 750 word comedy stories that are only dialogue. They're based on a British comedy TV show, so not to everyone's taste.

https://literotica.com/s/keeping-up-with-the-ruston-whites

https://literotica.com/s/keeping-up-at-cambridge

 

[AlinaX]

One of my earliest stories here was mostly dialogue: Oral Intercourse

 

[THBGato]

I have a couple of 750-word shorts that are dialog only, What Develops is a dialog between two characters, and Suburban Venus Lingerie is a monologue by a single character!

Penny, how am I going to fulfill my role as your biggest cheerleader if you keep beating me to it!?

Read Penny's stories people, they are amazing! Smut for everyone, almost all tastes catered for!

One (non-erotic) story I enjoyed that used dialogue quite effectively to reveal character was Play Date by Salish.

This one is great too. Shout outs also to @Areala-chan for "Four little words" and, one of my personal all time favourites, @bi_cathy "I'd go gay for you". Both are basically all dialogue between multiple participants.

My story, I have seen love, is essentially all dialogue, with some description of the feelings of the narrator as they eavesdrop on a conversation that should probably have been private.

 

[Trionyx]

Two more to consider…

We Don’t Have To Do This and
You Were Always on My Mind-750 Words

 

[ShamBaLa]

I have a WIP that's purely dialogue, but only one person's side of it.

I'll bite. Wouldn't that be a monolog? Dia prefix being 2? Or does the reader have to fill in the other voice. Look up old Bob Newhart phone routines. We only hear his side of the convo. Over thinking again I guess

 

[yowser]

As a (mostly failed) experiment, I tried a 750 word satire of dialog between an AI sex advice service and a human (well, two). Almost a hundred lines (or short paragraphs), all but ten of them dialog. No dialog tags whatsoever (that part worked anyway.)

It's a complicated challenge.

"She said yes. Or her eyes did anyway. It's actually a little hard for her to talk at the moment, with my penis in her mouth and all. And I'm sorta starting to push into her face, if you want to know the truth."

 

[ShamBaLa]

As a (mostly failed) experiment, I tried a 750 word satire of dialog between an AI sex advice service and a human (well, two). Almost a hundred lines (or short paragraphs), all but ten of them dialog. No dialog tags whatsoever (that part worked anyway.)

It's a complicated challenge.

"She said yes. Or her eyes did anyway. It's actually a little hard for her to talk at the moment, with my penis in her mouth and all. And I'm sorta starting to push into her face, if you want to know the truth."

Sounds along the lines of The Email Stalker. An AI bott in corporate email with access to security cams, including the company gym and locker room, makes ITs target arroused but suspicious. Also an experiment that really didn't work. Heavy sigh.

 

[StillStunned]

I'll bite. Wouldn't that be a monolog? Dia prefix being 2? Or does the reader have to fill in the other voice. Look up old Bob Newhart phone routines. We only hear his side of the convo. Over thinking again I guess

It's either a dialogue where you only hear half the conversation, or a monologue where you have to fill in the blanks.

It's inspired by Joyce Grenfell's nursery school monologues.

 

[Britva415]

It's a representation of a dialog if there are ostensibly two speakers, regardless of whether the speech of one of them is provided to the reader or not.

A monolog doesn't conceit to have another speaker at all. It's just one person talking to theirself - or to no one, or to an actually absent unhearing entity, or to an inanimate object, or to an unresponding being.

So is it a monolog if it is a representation of a dialog but with one side unrepresented? I'm inclined to say No, a one-sided representation of a dialog is still a dialog.

 

[Erozetta]

Dream a Little Dream of Me

Until the end, it's one character telling the details of a dream she had to another character.