NOVEL-WRITING — SUGGESTED PLAN 1. Read — Read the sort of novel you want to write. Read the classics of the genre, and read what’s being published now. Read other sorts of novels. Read poetry. Read non-fiction, on subjects that pertain to the sort of…
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…
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…
