Today on the present we’ve got returning champion the legendary Linda Seger. Linda and I talk about her new guide You Talkin’ to Me?: How to Write Great Dialogue. We do a deep dive into write nice dialog. Here’s a bit concerning the guide.
Unlike the chitchat of on a regular basis life, dialogue in tales should categorical character, advance the story, recommend a theme, and embody just a few memorable traces that audiences can be quoting for many years to come back. The greatest tales have dialogue that sparkles, but it surely’s simple for inexperienced writers to fall into frequent pitfalls like creating dialogue that’s wood or too on the nostril.
Other writers find yourself with exposition awkwardly inserted into conversations, actors tripping over unnatural phrases or characters who all communicate precisely the identical manner. In You Talkin’ to Me? Linda Seger and John Winston Rainey are right here to assist with all of your dialogue issues. In every chapter, they discover dialogue from a special angle and talk about examples of nice dialogue from movies and novels. To cap all of it off, every chapter ends with examples of poor dialogue, that are annotated by Linda after which rewritten by John, so readers don’t simply learn to acknowledge when it’s completed effectively―additionally they learn to make the dialogue higher. Whether you’re writing fiction or nonfiction, for the display screen or for the web page, this guide will get your characters speaking.
Ron Howard says he by no means begins a movie with out her guide. Having authored nine books on scriptwriting, together with the perfect promoting Making A Good Script Great, Linda is among the most prolific writers in her discipline.
Enjoy my dialog with Linda Seger.
