40% of a Dialogue Exercise

Let’s give this dialogue exercise a test run…

Probing-Rebuffing
“Master, where will I find the last dragon?” asked Leroy.
Master grinned a bit and pulled a golden medalion from a wooden box. “Take this to the fortune cookie factory.”

Sarcasm-Seriousness
“Well, that worked just great!” Greta reached for hilt of her broken sword out of the stones at the river’s edge where it had been thrown.
“Stop. That worked quite well indeed. Pick it up with this and be careful not to touch it,” said the mage. “We can track the beast now.”

Abruptness-Calming
“Just stop talking.”
“I will,” Carson said, “but not until I’ve finished what I came here to say.”

Anger-Nice

Despondent-Cheerful
“How am I ever going to slay that dragon? I’m useless with a sword.”
“You know, almost no dragon ever died by the sword. The vast majority of them die of old age.”

Inhibitory-Encouraging
Uncooperative-Supporting
Uncaring-Caring
Demands-Trivializing
Prohibitive-Unrestricted

That was a bit more work than I had time for this morning. I’ll try to come back later tonight to fill in the gaps. Overall I like this exercise, but I need to find smaller morsels within it. As it is it’s too complex to be the core repetition stuff I’m looking for.

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