Please Review my dialogue practice that I have · 7:21pm Oct 5th, 2022
This is for the Fanfic That I am Writing and I was practicing Writing Dialogue.
“Orion looked down upon Maretime Bay through his Crystal-Ball.” “Hmm, Wonder what Mayhem Should I pull today?” “Orion thought out loud to himself with a grin on his face, while placing his index finger and thumb on his chin.” “Orion Glanced at many different areas of the small beach town, but none conjured an idea. That was until he found Sunny Starscout’s smoothie truck. Orion Observed how Sunny prepared the fruity drinks for the customers standing in a line. Then the thought it hit Him.” Smoothies, no, a food truck, That’s it!” Orion Said, with the kind of excitement that one gets when they have a great idea.” “Henchman!” “Orion called out to across the room where an Ogre, who was wearing a brown mechanic’s apron over his Blue overalls with no shirt underneath, was sitting on a patchy armchair, reading a magazine,” “Yes,” said the ogre, looking up from the magazine in a deep voice,” “Ok, I got this great idea,”Orion said,” What if we disguised ourselves as ponies and sold cursed food out of a food truck?” “The Ogre thought for a moment then said” “Interesting idea Master, but where do we get the food truck?” “Then the ogre remembered,” Oh Wait, We already have a rusty food truck we found on the outskirts of the bay,” “The Ogre said,” ''Either that or we could create an illusion of a food truck. Because the one we found is all broken up.” “Orion’s Axolotl Familier, Axle, Said” “The Ogre henchman glanced at Orion and Axle,” I know I can fix it, but it’ll take some time, probably till tomorrow.” “I don’t care,” “said Orion in an annoyed tone” “I know that it will take time, just get to work already and have it outside by tomorrow.” “The Ogre Inhaled deep” “Ok master Orion, don’t need to tell me twice.” the Ogre henchman pulled a wrench out of his overalls and marched down the stairs to the room where the truck was kept.”
First of all, some grammatical errors.
I've noticed a few counts of non-speech being in quotation marks. Only spoken speech should have "". Also, new speech (especially when someone else is talking) should be on a new line. Of course, this doesn't apply to speech split by something:
"Speech," called character, "Speech continued".
I'd also suggest breaking up this block of text a little so it's not a wall of text but multiple lines or paragraphs. Maybe split it into a paragraph per practice scene or something.
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Thank you for the advice
and thank you for the follow.