Dialogue

Every writer knows the benefits strong dialogue can bring to a story-a faster pace, greater believability, increased...
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Author: Marcy Kennedy
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Dialogue by Kennedy, Marcy

Dialogue

$24.48

Dialogue

$24.48
Author: Marcy Kennedy
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Every writer knows the benefits strong dialogue can bring to a story-a faster pace, greater believability, increased tension, and even humor.

But not every writer knows how to achieve it.

And, unfortunately, weak dialogue can destroy a story even faster than strong dialogue can improve it. Weak dialogue can drag the pace to a halt, make your characters feel stilted, and confuse your readers.

In other words, to write great fiction, you need to know how to write dialogue that shines.

In Dialogue: A Busy Writer's Guide, writing instructor and fiction editor Marcy Kennedy shows you how to get it. Inside you'll learn...

- how to format your dialogue to keep it clear and easy to follow, - tricks to avoid the dreaded As-You-Know-Bob Syndrome, - how to use dialogue to manage your pace, increase tension, and bring your characters to life, - the secrets to dealing with dialogue challenges such as dialect, starting a chapter with dialogue, and using contractions in historical fiction and fantasy, and - much more.

Each book in the Busy Writer's Guides series is intended to give you enough theory so that you can understand why things work and why they don't, but also enough examples to see how that theory looks in practice. In addition, they provide tips and exercises to help you take it to the pages of your own story with an editor's-eye view.



Author: Marcy Kennedy
Publisher: Tongue Untied Communications
Published: 05/21/2014
Pages: 126
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9780992037123

About the Author
Marcy Kennedy is a speculative fiction and suspense writer who believes fantasy is more real than you think. It helps us see life in this world in a new way and gives us a safe place to explore problems that might otherwise be too difficult to face. Alongside her own writing, Marcy works as a freelance editor and teaches classes on craft and social media. She's also a proud Canadian, the proud wife of a former U.S. Marine, owns five cats and a dog who weighs as much as she does, and plays board games and the flute (not at the same time). Sadly, she's also addicted to coffee and jelly beans. You can find her blogging about writing and about the place where real life meets science fiction, fantasy, and myth at www.marcykennedy.com. To sign up for her new-release mailing list, please visit her website.


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