On Wed, 6 May 1998, Andrew Huang wrote:

remembered.  Personally, I think that going to prose was the best thing
that DnR could do, as I find the script format for that kind of
storytelling (sentimental comedy, for the most part) to be a waste.  

I don't agree :)  I think script format works quite well for comedy,
better than prose in some cases.  

	Not always. I remember someone saying that dialogue is better
handled in script, but there is one very major exception, particularly
when applied to humor: the ability to not attribute spoken words. You can

Which tends to lead to confusion, although I do it myself.  

and not say who it is. Why? Two different approaches: a) it should be
painfully obvious who's saying what, or b) the dialogue by itself is good
enough that it doesn't matter who's saying what, even to the point that it
detracts from it when you show who's saying what. Do you know what I mean?

I don't think I've ever seen a dialogue I thought would suffer from being
sure who was saying what.


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