How to Write Dialogue
11-15-08
"Just be like that," she pouted. "Oh, come on," he groaned. "Not this again." "You don't love me," she replied. "Right," he snarled. "That's why I bought you an eight hu...
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Have you ever read a court transcript? It accurately gives a word-by-word report of exactly what is said. But it is interesting? Uh-uh. If we wrote verbatim the way we talk, our readers ...
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© Vicki Hinze After you've written your scene, it's a good idea to run a checklist on all dialogue. As you do so, ask the following questions: Did I say exactly wh...
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By Linda O'Brien Tag (tag) n. v. 1. a descriptive word or phrase applied to a person, group, organization, etc. as a label or means of identification; epithet. Webster's New Universal Unabri...
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By Dr. Vicki Hinze What makes dialogue effective? Effective dialogue moves the plot forward. It deepens, or layers, characterization. It creates immediacy and intimacy, an...
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By John Hewitt Dialogue is one of the most difficult aspects of writing to master. There are many pitfalls you must try to avoid, such as: Stilted language Dialogue that does not sound l...
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The business of dialogue. We're treating it as if it is something arcane, and esoteric, and that you need a master's degree, and all that. All it is, is talk. Dialogue is the currency of humani...
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"You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself." Flannery O'Connor"Make dialogue crackle with feelings not directly expressed." John Gardner"Dialogue is a lean language...
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This should be the easiest part of writing. After all, we learn to speak at a young age and practise that skill for the rest of our lives. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work that way, the re...
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By Karen Hertzberg When it comes to writing good dialog, I'm of a mind that some writers are just born with a gift for hearing the voices in their heads and taking good notes. If you're on...
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By Nicole R Murphy There's nothing that kills a scene like hackneyed dialogue. Just stop and think about the average B-Grade Hollywood Movie. Sure, at times the plot is bad and the...
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By Earma Brown Have you started your book yet? Yes. Congratulations, you've begun a worthy journey! If you haven't started, do this first. Dream a bigger dream with me. Im...
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By Nancy Warren I was thinking about how often we refer to good dialogue as ‘sparkling'. For some reason, thirst perhaps, the word sparkling immediately made me think about m...
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By Sandra E. Haven A person's character is more quickly revealed in dialogue than in any other way. Dialogue is both a method of communication between peop...
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By Sandra E. Haven HANDLING: BROKEN GRAMMAR, ACCENTS, AND INTENDED MISSPELLINGS Common methods employed by writers to show a character's voice include poor grammar, alte...
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By Sandra E. Haven Dialogue is one of the most useful tools in fiction writing. It can speed a story's pace. It can show characterization. It can off...
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By Marg Gilks Think about it: there's a pretty boggling array of punctuation marks at our disposal -- not just your run-of-the-mill sentence-enders like periods, question marks, an...
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Speech is sloppy. People leave out words, compress phases into single words, and use contractions. Speech is impromptu, not planned. People tend to have habitual phrases they ...
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By Sandra E. Haven Accents, Broken Grammar & Other Tricky Dialog Common methods employed by writers to show a character's voice include poor grammar, altering spelling to reflect m...
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From the Writing Effective Dialogue Workshop: Here are three very important rules about punctuation with quotation marks that you should memorize (or at least write down and keep handy)...
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By Gloria Kempton Dialogue is conversation--nothing more, nothing less. How hard do we really think about the conversations in which we engage on a daily basis? How difficult do we mak...
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By Gloria Kempton Dialogue That Propels The Story Forward I sighed and put the novel manuscript down. How could this fiction writer really think she was engaging the reader? The two characters ...
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By Steve Dempster In short story writing, dialogue is very important for a number of reasons. I've listed a few below, not in order of importance - all are important - but to give a 'p...
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By Steve Manning Dialogue isn't so much read as it is heard by the reader. The eyes see the words on the page, the brain processes the thought, but then that little voice we all have i...
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By Lee Masterson Before I begin, it's important to understand a little about dialogue in fiction. Regardless of what you might read on the page, dialogue in a story is NOT about two pe...
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By Randy Ingermanson Subtexting refers to the art of putting a whole different layer of meaning under the surface, so that the dialogue is not really about what the di...
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