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Writing dialogue / Tom Chiarella.

by Chiarella, Tom.

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Story Press, c1998.

Fiction -- Authorship.

Fiction -- Technique.

9781884910326 (pbk.)

1884910327 (pbk.)

170 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

Ch. 1. Listening, Jotting, Crowding -- Ch. 2. The Direction of Dialogue: Examples and Possibilities -- Ch. 3. Dialogue and Character -- Ch. 4. Compression -- Ch. 5. On Silence -- Ch. 6. Radio, TV, Movies: Seeing, Listening, Reading -- Ch. 7. Using Dialogue to Create Stories -- Ch. 8. Nuts and Bolts.

Characters need to speak to each other. Tom Chiarella shows you how. Whether it's an argument, a love scene, a powwow among sixth graders or scientists in a lab, this book demonstrates how to write dialogue that sounds authentic and original. You'll learn ways to find ideas for literary discussions by tuning in to what you hear every day. You'll learn to use gestures instead of speech, to insert silences that are as effective as outbursts, to add shifts in tone, and other strategies for making conversations more compelling. Nuts and bolts are covered, too - formatting, punctuation, dialogue tags - everything you need to get your characters talking.

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