Matching Voices to Characters

Visual Mindscape: Writing Dialogue – Matching Voices to Characters

Decoying the Dialogue

Decoy Dialogue

Dialogue Only Has to Be True to the World

Dialogue Only Has to Be True to the World of Your Novel

Improve my Dialogue

How can I improve my dialogue? (A guest post)

Rumors About Dialogue

Three Rumors About Dialogue

Great Dialogue Scenes

Write great dialogue scenes in 7 steps

Dialogue that reveals character

How to write dialogue that reveals character

Gender-Specific Dialogue

Writing Gender-Specific Dialogue

Tips For Better Dialogue

5 Quick Tips For Better Dialogue In Fiction

(1) Dialogue brings your characters to life.
(2) Where do you find dialogue to write?
(3) Avoid the adverb trap
(4) Regional and foreign accents
(5) Different levels of speech

Secret of writing good dialogue

The secret of writing good dialogue for your novel or screenplay

Dialogue Tags

Dialogue Tags Are Annoying

Ailments of Writing Dialogue

Dialogue Ailments

Writing Impactful Dialogue

10 Tips for Writing Impactful Dialogue

Master The Rules of Dialogue in Writing

Write Like a Pro! Master The Rules of Dialogue in Writing

Forget He Said, She Said

Guest Author Tiffany Reisz: Forget He Said, She Said – Three Easy Tricks for Better Dialogue

Trick #1 – Humor
Trick #2 – Answer a Question with a Fish
Trick #3 – The Volley

Write Effective Dialogue

How to Write Effective Dialogue

5 Ways to Make Your Characters’ Conversations Real

Writing Dialogue: The 5 Best Ways to Make Your Characters’ Conversations Seem Real

Writing Good Dialogue

Seven Keys to Writing Good Dialogue
~ Nathan Bransford

Internal Dialogue

I've always been fascinated by internal dialogue.

I like giving the reader the ability to read the character's mind and see if his or her internal thoughts match their actions and dialogue.

This fascination helped me pen Left Standing a few years back.

One character asks another a question.
The character "thinks" no, but says, "yes" - or vice versa.

Internal dialouge can sometimes make the best internal conflict.

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He Said She Said

I've been fascinated by life where an observer can over hear/watch a conversation taking place in real-time.

A conversation unscripted.

Words being spoken with by the unique style of the person talking. The person talking not always saying exactly what they want to, even fumbling on words from time to time.

Not perfect, but real.

For the most part, dialogue can be tricky to write. But I think dialogue is a crucial ingredient to any piece of fiction that stands out.

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