You talkin' to me? : writing great dialogue / Linda Seger & John Winston Rainey.
By: Seger, Linda [author.]
Publisher: Studio City : Michael Wiese Productions, 2020Description: pages cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 21257284ISBN: 9781615933136Subject(s): Dialogue | Fiction -- Authorship | Motion picture authorship | PlaywritingDDC classification: 808.3/96 LOC classification: PN1551 | .S46 2020| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 808.2 SEG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 113728 | |||
| Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 808.2 SEG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2 | Available | 113729 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Unlike the chitchat of everyday life, dialogue in stories must express character, advance the story, suggest a theme, and include a few memorable lines that audiences will be quoting for decades to come.The best stories have dialogue that sparkles, but it's easy for inexperienced writers to fall into common pitfalls like creating dialogue that's wooden or too on the nose. Other writers end up with exposition awkwardly inserted into conversations, actors tripping over unnatural phrases, or characters who all speak exactly the same way. In You Talkin' to Me?, Linda Seger and John Winston Rainey are here to help with all your dialogue problems. In each chapter, they explore dialogue from a different angle and discuss examples of great dialogue from films and novels. To cap it all off, each chapter ends with examples of poor dialogue, which are annotated by Linda and then rewritten by John, so readers don't just learn how to recognize when it's done well--they also learn how to make dialogue better. Whether you're writing fiction or nonfiction, for the screen or for the page, this book will get your characters talking.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Defining great dialogue -- Revealing the character -- Establishing the unique world -- Stating the intention -- Exploring the conflict -- Communicating the Theme -- Writing subtext beneath the lines -- Using sensory images -- Communicating through dialects and accents -- Shading dialogue with poetry -- Writing dialogue for animals, aliens, and other critters -- Avoiding red flags <br>
"There are many challenges and pitfalls to writing great dialogue. Many inexperienced writers create wooden dialogue, on-the-nose dialogue, awkward expositional dialogue, dialogue that cannot be easily spoken, or same-sounding dialogue that fails to differentiate characters. In this book, each chapter will look at a different issue, will analyze the issue, and give examples of great dialogue from films and novels. Also, we will use dialogue from adaptations so the book will be helpful to both novelists and screenwriters. Each chapter will end with examples of poor dialogue that will be annotated by Linda and then re-written by John. We will cover the many issues that confront writers when writing any kind of story, whether fiction or non-fiction"-- Provided by publisher.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. 1)
- Introduction (p. 5)
- 1 Defining Great Dialogue (p. 9)
- 2 Revealing the Character (p. 25)
- 3 Establishing the Unique World (p. 47)
- 4 Stating the Intention (p. 58)
- 5 Exploring the Conflict (p. 79)
- 6 Communicating the Theme (p. 108)
- 7 Writing Subtext Beneath the Lines (p. 136)
- 8 Using Sensory Images (p. 152)
- 9 Communicating Through Dialects and Accents (p. 176)
- 10 Shading Dialogue with Poetic Devices (p. 199)
- 11 Writing Dialogue for Animals, Aliens, and Other Critters (p. 219)
- 12 Avoiding Red Flags (p. 233)
- About the Authors (p. 252)
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