5 easy ways to strengthen your novel's dialogue

Posted on 06/11/2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author Julie Glover recently gave a dialogue-writing presentation that concluded with ten quick ways to improve your characters’ conversations. She...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dialogue

How to write and rewrite dialogue

Posted on 05/22/2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Gamification is a popular technique for content creators and app developers to engage users. But it can also be a...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dialogue, Writer's Digest

Keep boring conversations out of your fiction

Posted on 05/14/2021 at 10:55 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Editor Louise Harnby opens her discussion of effective, compelling dialogue with a handy trick. Evaluate your dialogue by three measures:...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Editing, Louise Harnby, Writing advice, Dialogue

Ensure that your book's dialogue moves the story along

Posted on 04/09/2021 at 09:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We recently shared a post on the importance of dialogue, and we’ll follow up with more advice from another source....

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dialogue, Writing advice, Zara Altair

What the Dialogue Doctor prescribes for your writing

Posted on 04/05/2021 at 10:12 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Early on in Jeff Elkins’s writing career, he decided to analyze some ongoing bestsellers to see what characteristics they had...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dialogue, Joanna Penn, Writing advice

Trash talking: How to use dialogue in a fight scene

Posted on 03/11/2021 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author and trained fighter Carla Hoch has noticed there are two different camps when it comes to fight scenes in...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dialogue, Writer's Digest, Writing advice

A screenwriter shares how to write compelling dialogue

Posted on 01/14/2021 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Conversation isn’t the easiest thing in the world for many of us, especially given how little opportunity we’ve had to...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dialogue, Writing advice

Grammar Girl: You get to choose how to format internal dialogue

Posted on 10/23/2020 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The rules for formatting external dialogue are fairly straightforward — sure, they vary in different countries, but at least each...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dialogue, Grammar Girl, Language

Tips for writing compelling and realistic dialogue

Posted on 09/08/2020 at 11:18 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We’ve all been at a loss for words (some of us more often than others). How about your characters? Do...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Characters, Dialogue, Writing advice, Zara Altair

How to properly format dialogue

Posted on 03/25/2020 at 08:42 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Good news: the Kindlepreneur has a guide to formatting dialogue to share. Better news: its author admits there’s no need...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Dialogue, Language