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gnomi ([personal profile] gnomi) wrote2010-01-05 12:25 pm

Who Writes Your Dialogue?

I have a vague idea that I have posted on this topic in the past, but I can't find it and I admit that I am working today on a serious Squeaker-induced sleep deficit, so just go with it.

Twice today I have referenced popular culture in conversations with [personal profile] mabfan, and it reminded me just how much of my daily conversation is either taken directly from or in the style of dialogue writers that I admire. Today it was Joss Whedon ([personal profile] mabfan: Did I fall asleep? [personal profile] gnomi-in-Topher-voice: For a little while. [personal profile] mabfan: Shall I go now?) and Aaron Sorkin ("Turns out, I have a rose garden" in reference to a resource I hadn't realized I had at work). But sometimes it's William Goldman ("As you wish," "Who are those guys?") or Marta Kauffman/David Crane ("Could it be any colder?") or some other writer I'm not thinking of right now.

I know [personal profile] mabfan and I aren't the only ones who do this. So... who writes your dialogue?

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