Harvey Stanbrough
2. Dialogue – Sometimes you can use clichés in dialogues. After all, conventional expressions are used every day, and not all your characters have to be witty. Indeed, you can use clichés to make them more ordinary and familiar. I don’t know about you, but I hate it when all the...
A lot of fiction-writers struggle with dialogue. It’s tough to make fictional people sound convincing. And on an even more basic level, it’s tricky just to punctuate dialogue correctly. But dialogue is an essential part of your story. It makes your characters seem real; it’s often vita...
This back-to-back approach is confusing, and it can get even more so when the writer, with the intention of clarifying, places a dialogue tag in the middle. 此时如果你再加一个“he said”这样的提示词在两个人说的话中间,就会让人感到更加迷惑。比如↓ “I’ve never stolen anything in my ...
In particular, if dialogue sounds wrong, or stilted, then rewrite it. You may need to come back to it when you know your characters a bit better, and you have found their voices more confidently. 9. Be prepared to bin it This is important enough to be a separate point. ...
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that utilize dialogue and scene setting as tools to pull the plot forward. She is especially drawn to any writing that blends fiction and nonfiction. Some of her favorites include In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan and the Bluest Eye by Toni ...
“Knowing how to write dialogue is important,” he said imploringly Fiction consists of people doing and talking, often in broadly equal proportions. Screenplays, novels, and stage plays are stuffed with dialogue, and yet far too few authors spend any time trying to get it right. Knowing how...
Margaret teaches how to use dialogue to reveal character and story, and discusses the importance of making your dialogue authentic to the time and place in which your narrative transpires. Students give MasterClass an average rating of4.7 out of 5 stars ...
Choose two inanimate objects (e.g., a clock and a teacup). Write a dialogue as if these objects were having a conversation. What would they say to each other? Genre Swap: Take a dialogue from a romance novel and rewrite it as if it were in a science fiction setting. Notice how the...