How To Write Dialogue
Marcy KennedyIn Dialogue: A Busy Writer's Guide, writing instructor and fiction editor Marcy Kennedy shows you how to get it. Inside you'll learn...- how to format your dialogue to keep it clear and easy to follow,- tricks to avoid the dreaded As-You-Know-Bob Syndrome,- how to use dialogue to manage your pace, increase tension, and bring your characters to life,- the secrets to dealing with dialogue challenges such as dialect, starting a chapter with dialogue, and using contractions in historical fiction and fantasy, and- much more.
Each book in the Busy Writer's Guides series is intended to give you enough theory so that you can understand why things work and why they don't, but also enough examples to see how that theory looks in practice. In addition, they provide tips and exercises to help you take it to the pages of your own story with an editor's-eye view.
Other Books in the Busy Writer's Guide Series: Showing and Telling in Fiction, Internal Dialogue, Point of View in Fiction, Grammar for Fiction Writers