Write Great Fiction - Dialogue |
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| Title: | Write Great Fiction - Dialogue |
| Author: | Gloria Kempton |
| Publisher: | Writers Digest Books |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 26 October, 2004 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1582972893 / 9781582972893 |
| List Price: | $16.99 |
| You Save: | $5.44 |
| Amazon Price: | $11.55 |
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Product Description
How do some writers craft conversation so authentic, it feels like they've been eavesdropping? What's the secret behind getting characters to talk to each other? How can writers make their dialogue sing? Answers to all of these questions and more can be found in Gloria Kempton's in-depth look at this crucial component of fiction. Readers will learn how to create dialogue that sizzles, with tips on: * Creating dialogue for specific genres * Bringing characters to life with revealing dialogue * Identifying and fixing common dialogue problems Each chapter features numerous examples of successful dialogue drawn from bestselling novels, and chapter-ending exercises help readers apply the lessons learned. This is one book that will get readers talking!
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Customer Reviews:
• Devil In The Detail
26 February, 2009
This is a book which takes you into the nitty gritty of writing dialogue. Not only does the author show you what works, she also gives examples of what doesn't work, allowing the reader to hear how dialogue should sound. Wonderful! And it's not just tips on dialogue you'll pick up. This book is packed full of references to setting and character. Despite a misprint in the first chapter, I found this book excellent.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Good Book
08 January, 2009
I'm happy with the content...
Learned lots of new and interesting stuff..
MJL
- Amazon Customer Review
• Dialogue
28 January, 2009
I was apprehensive about buying this book because dialogue is one of my stronger points in writing. However, after reading several chapters I feel like Gloria Kempton is going to teach me a thing or two more about good character dialogue with in my stories.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Though Not Perfect, Well Worth It
28 January, 2010
This book contains lots of useful information, not just about how to write snappy dialogue but also to get the most out of dialogue and to get it do the most that it can do, such as expanding characterization and setting details, and reinforcing the role of the main character. As with the Nancy Kress book in the same series on Character and Emotion, this book also contains a wealth of information about first-person perspective.
Unlike that book however, Ms. Kempton uses a more easygoing style which, while it sometimes facilitates the readability, it sometimes also distracts the reader by containing "attitude" which does not belong (to any detectable extent) in an instructional/informational book. There is a perfectly unsatisfying example of this tendency in the section where Ms. Kempton discusses telephone conversation dialogue. All she says about it is that in this era of cellphones, "there is no longer any excuse for static telephone conversations." This is really all she has to say about it, and I really could've used a more expansive discussion on this subject.
So, overall, despite the bothersome level of casualness (maybe a touch too much character in her instructional writing style, a character which would be a strength in fiction but is distracting here), a useful book with more than enough useful content to justify buying it. There will be plenty of dog-ears, believe me.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Stay On Subject. Please
26 September, 2009
I have found this book to be very disappointing so far. One thing I notice right off is that the author does not stay on subject while she is writing that a writer needs to stay on subject in dialogue. After three chapters I do not want to go on. Please do not let this one though keep one from others of this series as I have found this one to be the first big loser. Not only does the author here not stay on topic, but what is presented on dialogue is weak, things I already knew from observing just from being a reader. There are pointers about various writing categories like using mysterious and dark words in dialogue when writing a spooky novel. Wow! Really!
I am already skipping through sections as much as ten pages. The first three chapters need to be dropped or condensed into a paragraph or two. I do not need to be told what mystery or sci fi genre are and to use a different dialogue for each. I do not need a list of what people fear they will do wrong and then a couple of sentences of suggestions such as rewriting it if that happens. I do not care if she had a student in class that was afraid of dialogue. See, this is all off topic. The subject matter is dialogue not students' fears of it.
For a writer to not be able to stay on topic is rather bad, but for the editors and publisher to not see this- just really bad.
Thank you and hope it was helpful.
- Amazon Customer Review
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