Writers' Bloc

That's pretty much how it was intended, it started as a conversation between two characters then a third, fourth and fifth joined in later, pretty much as it would do in reality. In context, telling which character could have spoke each line is easier to discern because the reader will know of the events that preceded the scene. For example they would known which of the two Lacy characters was washing their hair in the shower when the portal opened. I wrote that passage as an experiment and deliberately set it in a darkened room so I could not use visual narrative, I could have left it at that but since anyone listening to the conversation would not be able to tell which of the two Lacys were speaking I challenged myself not to use any aural narrative for the entire scene. Where it doesn't work, and I admit there are several lines that are completely ambiguous, I realised that it didn't actually matter a great deal who said those lines.

Both of my 'published' novels were originally written as e-novels and were published episodically as a series of short chapters. Because they were written to be read on-screen and not in printed form I deliberately imposed length restrictions on each chapter. I realised early on that no one reads long passages of electronic text, that necessitated writing shorter narratives and dialogues than I would normally write. The need to write concisely is something that requires adapting ones natural style into something more disciplined, and for me that involves some small amount of planning and a lot of editing. I prefer to let the words flow onto the page naturally, and then go back and revise what I have written into something that has the pace and energy the scene requires. [Ironic then that I write long verbose posts here ]. This does not mean that my stories are short, when I converted my last e-novel to a print book it ran for 486 pages and contains over 120,000 words...