Dialogue is central to most genres of writing. Novels are deeply rooted in dialogue, as is creative non-fiction. The heart of journalism is the quote. Stage plays and screenplays are almost entirely dialogue.
Dialogue is also the way in which we reveal and conceal ourselves. Word choice and accent tell us a great deal about the speaker, but in a less obvious way, rhythms and hesitations say as much. They are the body language of speech–astonishingly intimate and immediate.
Yet dialogue is rarely taught in basic or even intermediate writing classes, and outside the classroom a new writer has to work out dialogue-writing skills from scratch.
This book teaches the skill of writing interesting, original, powerful, revealing dialogue–including the vital skill of knowing how to punctuate it so as to convey all its subtleties.
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