User blog comment:TDIwriter/Some News About Pacific Island/@comment-1874924-20111206034334

I liked the preview scene. The language (or syntaxial, to be more precise...is that even a word?) barrier spoke to me, because that is in fact one reason why most of my previous stories had little dialogue, and one of the reasons why I originally did not expect that I would ever attempt a competition story. When I joined the wiki, my knowledge of colloquial Teenspeak came almost entirely from watching TDI and 6Teen. I've since picked up a fair understanding of it here on the wiki, so I've grown more confident in my ability to write realistic teen dialogue. Although LTDI is still going to be less dialogue-intensive than most competition stories, I'm not shying away from dialogue. (And, as Lilac once noted, pairing colloquial dialogue with my narrative style makes for an interesting mix.)