The book of dialogue : how to write effective conversation in fiction, screenplays, drama, and poetry / Lewis Turco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turco, Lewis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialogue.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 194 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Summary:

The Book of Dialogue 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 method-invented by Plato in his dialogues outlining the teachings of Socrates-Turco 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.

Contents:

Definitions. Savants ; Bordello

Speech in Narration. An Old-Fashioned Kind of Guy ; One Sunday Morning ; The Man in the Booth ; Pleasant Dell

Diction. Scot on the Rocks

Types of Speech. Pocoangelini 7 ; Barrow Yard ; Shipmates

Genre Dialogue. Murgatroyd Tries Again ; The Museum of Ordinary People.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780826361912

0826361919