Ultimately, it's down to personal choice, but a work with no dialogue would be heavy going. If interaction with other characters doesn't fit the story, could you perhaps give your character internal voices a la Gollum?
Peter
Yeah I'm doing internal, and also seamless/transparent network talking. After some hand wringing I've ditched the italics for it too, not that its relevant!
Alt
I think dialogue is inherently a little more "active" than plain old descriptions. So putting it in can draw your reader's attention a little quicker.
Lith
I agree. I try and write it, but when I'm in the zone and writing fluently the result is often not very dialogue heavy. I guess I'll just have to get it done enough for uploading for crit.
Alt
A further benefit is that dialogue is subjective- any mistake you make in consistency can be blamed on the character's bad memory rather than your own. It also gives you room to explore ideas without having to fully commit to them, again because it's the character's opinions rather than the authoritative narrator.
Lith
Now that is really useful to me, thankyou for pointing that out Lith.
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Alt
Of course the difficulty I have is trying to put different personalities into different character's voices.
Mad Tam McC
Thats interesting. I don't really try to do that, although some POVs have certain words they use exclusively.
alt