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The best course you can take on writing dialogue is being a good listener. I am always listening. To people I’m speaking with, and when I’m eavesdropping in public. The better listener you are, the better writer of dialogue you’ll be. Whether you prefer your characters to speak in heightened methods ala Sorkin, or geographically and educationally s
... See morePaul Guyot • Kill the Dog: The First Book on Screenwriting to Tell You the Truth
Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities
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Dialogue is a skill best learned by people who enjoy talking and listening to others—particularly listening, picking up the accents, rhythms, dialect, and slang of various groups. Loners such as Lovecraft often write it badly, or with the care of someone who is composing in a language other than his or her native tongue. I don’t know if contemporar
... See moreStephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
in addition to what was said. You’ll be able to make the interaction more human, more believable, more artful, more inspiring, more beautiful.
Dean Nelson • Talk to Me: How to Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers, and Interview Anyone Like a Pro
Like interest-based bargaining, the What’s This Really About? conversation succeeds by transforming a conversation from a tussle over where the dialogue is going into a collaboration,
Charles Duhigg • Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
agenda in a scene, and set the agendas in conflict. Before you write take just a moment to jot down what each character in the scene wants, even if (as Kurt Vonnegut once said) it is only a glass of water.