The Book of Dialogue - How to Write Effective Conversation in Fiction, Screenplays, Drama,

The Book of Dialogue is an invaluable resource for writers and students of narrative seeking to master the art of effective dialogue.

About the author

Lewis Turco is an emeritus professor and the founding director of the Program in Writing Arts at SUNY-Oswego and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. An award-winning author, Turco has published twenty-one collections of poetry and nonfiction, including The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Fifth Edition, and The Book of Literary Terms: The Genre of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship, Second Edition.

Summary

An invaluable resource for writers and students of narrative seeking to master the art of dialogue. The book will teach you how to use dialogue to lay the groundwork for events in a story, to balance dialogue with other story elements, to dramatize events through dialogue, and to strategically break up dialogue with other elements of your story.

Product details

• Authors: Lewis Turco
• Publisher: University Of New Mexico Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780826361905
• ISBN: 978-0-8263-6190-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works