Make my characters' dialogue sound natural
Feedback and a revised version of your dialogue scene so each character sounds distinct and conversations feel real.
The prompt
Help me improve the dialogue in a scene I wrote.
The scene: [PASTE THE SCENE]
Who is speaking: [each character with age, background, and personality - e.g. "Ray, 70, retired fisherman, few words, dry humor"]
What the scene must accomplish: [e.g. "reveal that Ana lied about the money"]
The relationship between them right now: [e.g. "siblings, polite on the surface, angry underneath"]
Check for these common problems:
- Characters telling each other things they both already know, just to inform the reader.
- Everyone sounding the same (same vocabulary, sentence length, rhythm).
- Too-perfect speech: real people interrupt, dodge, answer a different question, and leave things unsaid.
- Missing subtext: characters stating feelings outright instead of showing them through what they avoid.
- Overworked dialogue tags ("she exclaimed angrily") and too many adverbs.
- Long speeches with no action or reaction between them.
Return:
1. A short diagnosis with quoted examples from my scene.
2. A one-line "voice note" for each character (how they talk, words they'd never use).
3. A revised version of the scene, keeping my plot points and as much of my wording as possible.
4. A list of the main changes you made and why, so I can apply them myself elsewhere.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- PASTE THE SCENE
- e.g. "reveal that Ana lied about the money"
- e.g. "siblings, polite on the surface, angry underneath"
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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