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You'll learn ways to find ideas for literary discussions by tuning in to what you hear every day. You'll learn to use gestures instead of speech, to insert silences that are as effective as outbursts, to add shifts in tone, and other strategies for making conversations more compelling. Nuts and bolts are covered, too - formatting, punctuation, dialogue tags - everything you need to get your characters talking.
The world is crowded with voices. Read the first page
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
In response to others on this classic,
By Reggie T. Bush (Orange County, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Writing Dialogue (Paperback)
It's funny that a few disaffected, likely failed, writers would jump on a bandwagon and start bashing this book, which I've always used and have seen in dozens of classrooms. It's a witty book, that doesn't take itself too seriously, and one that offers lessons beyond the subject of dialogue. I think it's about the fifth best selling creative writing text today so you have to assume these other reviewers have some axe to grind.One guy says he's not a real writer, but Chiarella publishes regularly in about a zillion magazines-- Esquire, the New Yorker, Sports Illustrated and he has two books, I don't know who that other guy you mentioned is, Orson Scott Case? But I'm sure he must be a real writer because he teaches at a community college somewhere and someone knows him from your book club. Check your facts, then spare me. One guy says he's too much of an English Professor. But Chiarella has an MFA and is clearly not a literature professor. Besides, big crime there, studying writing. Sheesh. Another guy talks about literary short stories like they were cancer. What other short stories are we talking about? The ones in the back of "Juggs"? These are the sorts of stories that most of us want to write, literary ones. Not all of us are threatened by ambition for our stories. As for the recommendation to read books on screenplays, I thought I would just add that I graduated with an MFA from USC in Screenwriting. I took three stage writing classes. We used this book in two of them (as well as one of my screenwriting workshops). This is a GOOD book on documenting the rituals and rhythmns of language. Most books on writing drama are tedious and overly-driven by theory.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Some light reading.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Writing Dialogue (Paperback)
A good way to bone up on some of the basics of dialogue. It is unlikely that you will find much that you don't already know but this is a good treatment of the material. Two high points of this book are: it is highly readable as the author allows his personality into the book and it preaches practical minimalism in dialogue which is something that every writer should practice.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Useful but not outstanding,
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This review is from: Writing Dialogue (Paperback)
There were some good tips in this book, but overall there weren't as many as I would have expected from a book focusing solely on dialogue. A number of the tips I'd already read in more general books on writing, so that tempered the amount of useful information I was able to get out of the book. The commentary and anecdotal stories in this book make it more interesting to read, but also leave less room for the actual mechanics of writing dialogue.
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