WRITING OBSTACLE
Write a gossip session between two friends which suddenly turns very serious.
How can you use dialogue and speech tags to convey the change of tone?
Look It Up
I don’t claim any rightful ownership here, just imaginining. So no need to troll your lallies, it’s just a coddy screech..
1955. Two palones, **Mel** and **Jules**, are having a bit of a dish over their frothy coffees.
⸻
**MEL**
Varda Erin’s zhooshy story last nochy? Who _was_ that omi?
_(“Did you see Erin’s flashy story last night? Who was that man?”)_
**JULES**
Oh bona, I clocked her. A riah that lost the lingo.
_(“Yeah, totally, I saw her. A hairdo with no sense.”)_
**MEL**
Like some cod omi who says “I’m not like the other charpering types” and then tries to troll you into a rorty scheme.
_(“Like a fake guy who claims he’s different but then scams you.”)_
**JULES**
(laughs)
Naomi! And Erin looked all fakement, like she’d been edited in with an eyelash curler.
_(“Totally! Erin looked completely fake, like she’d been badly retouched.”)_
**MEL**
Something’s off, bona. Since the Vegas trollery she’s been giving me the cold wrist.
_(“Something’s definitely off. Since the Vegas madness, she’s been distant.”)_
**JULES**
I sent her a bijou message, she just flicked me a single lally emoji.
_(“I messaged her, and she only sent back a thumbs-up.”)_
**MEL**
(serious now)
You think it’s just jarrys, or something darkie?
_(“You think it’s just boy trouble, or something more serious?”)_
**JULES**
Like what?
**MEL**
I don’t savvy… that omi had a scar down his eke, and his tick-tock was on the palm side.
_(“I don’t know… that guy had a scar on his face, and his watch was on the inside.”)_
**JULES**
Only naff types or the bona scary ones dally their tick-tock like that.
_(“Only weirdos or the really scary ones wear their watches like that.”)_
**MEL**
Remember what she trolled about that dinar she borrowed?
_(“Remember what she said about that money she borrowed?”)_
**JULES**
Said it was ‘sorted’—but in that dead batty tone.
_(“She said it was handled—but she sounded really off.”)_
**MEL**
What if it _wasn’t_? What if she’s up to her riah in palaver?
_(“What if it wasn’t? What if she’s in real trouble?”)_
**JULES**
We can’t just varda her vanish into some omi’s luppers.
_(“We can’t just watch her disappear into some guy’s clutches.”)_
**MEL**
We need to have a bona bijou spill with her. No lallies, no screech, just real chatter.
_(“We need to talk to her. No nonsense, no drama, just real talk.”)_
**JULES**
Yeah. Just two bona palones doing right. Even if it’s a full-on slap in the riah.
_(“Yeah. Just two good friends trying to help. Even if it’s rough.”)_