How do we go about writing good dialogue? 1. Professor James McKinley says, “To write…dialogue well, you must first know what the scene’s about, both in itself and as part of the work’s whole scheme, so that you can think and feel for and through…
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Are we all singing Edwin Starr’s “War”? I know I am. But dialogue IS good for something. It’s good for a lot of somethings, or it should be. If dialog doesn’t fulfill at least two of these purposes, it’s just yak-yak and it needs to…
There’s a certain amount of disagreement about the use of dialogue tags. Here’s what I think about ’em. What I think about ’em today, that is. To begin with, people speak through gestures, facial expression, body language. The non-verbal element supplies movement, injects variety into…