Write Great Fiction - Dialogue (Write Great Fiction)
Write Great Fiction - Dialogue (Write Great Fiction) How do some writers craft conversation so authentic, it feels like they’ve been eavesdropping? What’s the secret behind getting characters to talk to each other? How can writers make their dialogue sing?
Answers to all of these questions and more can be found in Gloria Kempton’s in-depth look at this crucial component of fiction. Readers will learn how to create dialogue that sizzles, with tips on:
* Creating dialogue for specific genres
* Bringing characters to life with revealing dialogue
* Identifying and fixing common dialogue problems
Each chapter features numerous examples of successful dialogue drawn from bestselling novels, and chapter-ending exercises help readers apply the lessons learned. This is one book that will get readers talking!
Customer Review: Sound advice on how to write
Dialogue by Gloria Kempton has some sound advice for writing dialogue. While not perfect, those giving it such bad reviews seem more interested in explaining their opinions rather than objectively explain why it’s a bad book. Certainly a review must have personal opinion, but an objective criticism that cites clear specific examples and compares that to better books is far more convincing. The people who gave such low scores on this book provide no such information, so even if I was convinced that this book was awful, I wouldn’t immediately know where else to look for a better book on dialogue.
Someone who is curious about how to write dialogue would do well to get this book. The chapters focus on clear, distinctive aspects of dialogue and, like the other books in the “Write Great Fiction” series, show how the other elements (such as plot, description, characters, etc.) tie into dialogue. The book does tend to use a tad bit more literary examples than I would like, (I’d prefer a balance of literary and commercial examples) but this is hardly a harsh criticism. Buy a notebook, get this book and take notes on it. The information inside will help you write better dialogue, and that’s all the author intended to do.
Customer Review: Surprisingly GREAT!
I read the few reviews that were available on this book before I purchased it. That said, I wasn’t expecting the dead-on, delightfully comedic, phychology behind every chapter written!! I found myself thinking ‘…who is this author and how does she know my every thought, my every fear and my every excuse to put off until tomorrow what I should have done last year.’ I have taken one of her on-line writing classes and found it to be a non-productive experience (for myself). But she deserves 5 STARS–connecting very well with each of her students–via her own written word. I HIGHLY RECCOMMEND HER BOOK.
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