Compass Points
Creating Meaningful Dialogue
1st Edition
Published on 26. September 2014
97 pages
978-1-78279-529-2 (ISBN)
Description
Poor dialogue is one of the main reasons for a publisher's reader glazing over when reading a first-time novel, where the author has seen fit to include every superfluous utterance of every-day speech. The purpose of dialogue is to move the story along and to give added dimension to the characters through what they say, and often think. Creating Meaningful Dialogue helps to get rid of the dross from your typescript and retain the gold in the story. Try to incorporate the exercises given at the end of each chapter into your own writing where appropriate and see how it improves the flow of the dialogue by making the characters come alive. With added input from publishers and publisher's readers, this book is invaluable for all would-be novelists and fiction writers.
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In addition to being the commissioning editor for Compass Books, Suzanne Ruthven is also editor of the popular quarterly creative writing magazine, The New Writer (which she produces in partnership with literary agent, and publisher, Merric Davidson). She lives in County Tipperary, Ireland.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Speech Therapy
- Chapter Two: Historical Discourse
- Chapter Three: Chit-chat and Small Talk
- Chapter Four: Verbal Body Language
- Chapter Five: Interview and Interrogation
- Chapter Six: Audience
- Chapter Seven: Confrontation
- Chapter Eight: Talking To Yourself
- Chapter Nine: Shooting The Breeze - Accents, Dialect and Other Worlds
- The Writer's Book Shelf
