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The Writer's Guide to Authentic Dialogue Scenes: Craft Vibrant Characters and Vivid Dialogue
A powerful reference tool to crafting realistic conversations in fiction!
This manual is specifically for fiction writers who want to learn how to create riveting and compelling dialogue that propels the storyline and reveals character personality.
Writers will also learn how to weave emotion, description, and action into their dialogue-heavy scenes. With a special section on how to instantly improve characterization through gripping conversations, all of these helpful writing tools will make your dialogue sparkle!
This manual is specifically for fiction writers who want to learn how to create riveting and compelling dialogue that propels the storyline and reveals character personality.
Writers will also learn how to weave emotion, description, and action into their dialogue-heavy scenes. With a special section on how to instantly improve characterization through gripping conversations, all of these helpful writing tools will make your dialogue sparkle!
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Published December 23, 2016
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February 12, 2025
For the purpose of what I bought it for it did not deliver. I believe this was because it was very simplistic in nature and I am more experienced in writing than its intended demographic.
There were a handful of grammatical errors which don't bother me all that much. The author states a couple (too many) times that they are not the best at copy editing/grammar and so this wasn't much of a surprise, but it do think that with a couple more read throughs, even using the techniques the author offers at the end of the book for proofreading your story, they could have been easily fixed. It's a short book after all with many paragraph and page breaks.
That being said, I give it three stars because it wasn't very helpful and I found myself disagreeing with the author on some points. They state that using certain dialogue tags such as "breathed" should never be done because people don't literally breathe out words, they say words. I simply disagree. Perhaps its style or some other non-objective qualifier for why we have different opinions; maybe one of us are wrong.
So anyway, I did not find it particularly helpful nor will I read it again, however I did appreciate the tip near the end when they share a software called Natural Reader which will read your document with AI text-to-speech as if it's an audiobook and I do think I will give that a try. I also don't think it's unhelpful in general as I'm sure someone with lesser experience, aka someone just getting into writing, would find it very helpful.
There were a handful of grammatical errors which don't bother me all that much. The author states a couple (too many) times that they are not the best at copy editing/grammar and so this wasn't much of a surprise, but it do think that with a couple more read throughs, even using the techniques the author offers at the end of the book for proofreading your story, they could have been easily fixed. It's a short book after all with many paragraph and page breaks.
That being said, I give it three stars because it wasn't very helpful and I found myself disagreeing with the author on some points. They state that using certain dialogue tags such as "breathed" should never be done because people don't literally breathe out words, they say words. I simply disagree. Perhaps its style or some other non-objective qualifier for why we have different opinions; maybe one of us are wrong.
So anyway, I did not find it particularly helpful nor will I read it again, however I did appreciate the tip near the end when they share a software called Natural Reader which will read your document with AI text-to-speech as if it's an audiobook and I do think I will give that a try. I also don't think it's unhelpful in general as I'm sure someone with lesser experience, aka someone just getting into writing, would find it very helpful.
August 12, 2018
This book offers sound advice (with examples) on how to differentiate between weak and strong dialogue. A quick, easy read.
December 8, 2020
The wordlists make this book.
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