Do Now:
Talk to your writing partner about the dialog in your novel so far while your computer is booting.
Example of dialog:
Dialog
from Black Boy by Richard Wright
I was hungry and he knew it; but he was
a white man and I felt that if I told him I was hungry I would have been
revealing something shameful.
"Boy, I can see hunger in your face and
eyes," he said.
"I get enough to eat," I lied.
"Then why do you keep so thin?" he asked
me.
"You're just scared, boy," he said.
"Oh, no, sir," I lied again.
I could not look at him. I wanted to
leave the counter, yet he was a white man and I had learned not to walk abruptly
away from a white man when he was talking to me. I stood, my eyes looking away.
He ran his hand into his pocket and pulled out a dollar bill.
"Here, take this dollar and buy
yourself some food," he said.
"No, sir," I said.
"Don't be a fool," he said. "You're
ashamed to take it. God, boy, don't let a thing like that stop you from taking a
dollar and eating."
The more he talked the more it became
impossible for me to take the dollar. I wanted it, but I could not look at it. I
wanted to speak, but I could not move my tongue. I wanted him to leave me alone.
He frightened me.
Yes, it is Day SEVEN! Did you write over the weekend. I know lots of you did. I was bragging about you at a technology conference. I pulled up my docs list as part of a presentation and I could see that many of you were noveling. I had to stop and tell my audience how cool my students are.
