The Dialogue Doctor Says Take One a Day for Fifty Days: Fifty Writing Prompts That Will Transform Your Dialogue

by Jeff Elkins

113 pages, Paperback

Published September 12, 2024

About the author

Jeff Elkins writes stories about outsiders who fight for outcasts, rejects, and the oppressed. He is the author of more than ten novels, a Certified Three Story Method Editor, and the host of the Dialogue Doctor podcast. During the day, he leads the writing team for a training company that simulates difficult conversations.

He lives north of Baltimore, Maryland with his wife of twenty years and his five kids.

Reviews

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great workbook for beginners writers to learn how to construct scenes with effective dialogue, starting from the bare-bones basics. Those with experience can still find value as the exercises build on one another, adding characters, constructing scenes, then trying voice modulation based on emotion, and ending on incorporating character arcs in the conversation.

I've recommended this book to a writer client who struggled with realistic, effective dialogue, and I would do it again!