Dialogue as Action

When writing dialogue for your characters, give me characters who use words as tools.

When someone says "GIVE ME THE GODDAMN MONEY!" they're not conveying their urgent mindset, they're trying to get the goddamn money!

Characters use dialogue to convince one another, to trick one another, to seduce one another, or for the other ACTIONS their goals demand.

They don't care about BEING understood, BEING heard, BEING sexy, or BEING anything else. Why? You should have made stakes and the urgency way too high for them to waste time BEING anything!

Dialogue is not an excuse to get passive. Use action to tell your story at all times - even when that action is speech.

If your characters have time to shoot the bullcrap, elevate what's at stake. If they reach their objective too quickly as a result, make the objective that much harder to reach!