Characters need to speak to each other, but writers often have trouble crafting dialogue that sounds aut hentic and original. Whether it''s an argument or a love scen e, Chiarella demonstrates how to write exchanges that sound realistic. '
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Tag..You're It!:
This book puts you right in the action, enabling your dialogues' grammar to be correct and convincing. Although one can observe correct dialogue format from examples in professionally written stories, the author clarifies formatting techniques with concrete examples. He proceeds with a broad discussion of the use of dialogue tags, (he said, she said), giving advise of when to us them and when not to use them, again drawing upon examples to make his points clear. I really have to admire the way he organizes... more info
EXCELLENT HANDBOOK FOR THE CRAFTING OF DIALOGUE:
Prof. Chiarella here provides a very useful guide for the writing of conversation. Not only does he explore the basic grammatical mechanics of different writing tricks and techniques, but he gives us generously as a good teacher the strength and encouragement to pursue our individual talent and multiple voices. Basically the author tells us to write, and then to write, and then to write some more. He has us listen as carefully as possible everywhere we can, and to absorb, to take notes, and above all to... more info
Bent Basics:
Speaking across a generational divide, I find "Writing Dialogue"
helpful for self-editing. I am too annoyed by the tv culture to sustain interest in author's clever essays. But I do look at tv in spurts with better informed, purposive ear. It is bending the ear to picture scenes that instructs my writing.
Helpful, but annoying in my sixties.
Grandma Writer
Actually 1 star is too high of a rating:
this book is lousy its the worst. It promises alot but doesn't deliver. If you want to learn to write meaningless every day conversation like: "Hi how are you Sam?" "I'm fine thanks George." Then this book is for you. It never gets past the above formatt of dialogue and the narrative of this book is boring and hard to understand. The writer is a bafoon who admittedly carries a journal around recording conversations like the above "Hi sam..." The book is so annoying it make me want to... more info
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