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The Book of Dialogue: How to Write Effective Conversation Fiction, Screenplays, Drama, and Poetry
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The Book of Dialogue: How to Write Effective Conversation Fiction, Screenplays, Drama, and Poetry
Current price: $29.95
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The Book of Dialogue: How to Write Effective Conversation Fiction, Screenplays, Drama, and Poetry
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is an invaluable resource for writers and students of narrative seeking to master the art of effective 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 vital elements of your story in order to capture and hold a reader's or viewer's interest in the overall arc of the narrative.Writers will find Turco's classic an essential reference for crafting dialogue. Using dialogue to teach dialogue, Turco's chapters focus on narration, diction, speech, and genre dialogue. Through the Socratic dialogue methodinvented by Plato in his dialogues outlining the teachings of SocratesTurco provides an effective tool to teach effective discourse. He notes, "Plato wrote lies in order to tell the truth. That's what a fiction writer does and has always done." Now it's your turn.