Writing great dialog–Part 5: dialog basics
From Rick: It’s been over a year since I wrote Part 4 of this series. You can see and read parts 1-4 simply by clicking on DIALOG in the categories on the left of the blog. In this installment, I
Read MoreFrom Rick: It’s been over a year since I wrote Part 4 of this series. You can see and read parts 1-4 simply by clicking on DIALOG in the categories on the left of the blog. In this installment, I
Read MoreFrom Rick: In this post, I’m going to cover formatting dialog, which some new writers get wrong. For purposes of this blog, I’ll assume the American English style of formatting, that is, double quote marks, where British English may use
Read MoreFrom Rick: In this part, I’m going discuss defining character with dialog. Many new authors don’t grasp this starting out, and they end up having all their characters talk alike. We’ve all read novels where it was difficult to keep
Read MoreFrom Rick: As I mentioned in last week’s brief post, Scott and I lately have been quite busy. So, for a while, we’re going to reduce the length of our blog posts, dividing them into multiple posts when necessary, to
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