The Fiction Writer's Guide to Dialogue: A Fresh Look at an Essential Ingredient of the Craft

by John Hough Jr. and Hough

Dialogue is often overlooked as a necessary and potent instrument in the novelist's repertoire. A novel can rise or fall on the strength of its dialogue. Superb dialogue can make a superb novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "Action is character." George V. Higgins said, "Dialogue is character." They were both right, because dialogue is action. It comprises much, if not all, of the clarifying drama of any novel. How much physical action can there be...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621534391
• ISBN13: 9781621534396
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Allworth
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"