Description
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.
Author: Lewis Turco
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 09/01/2020
Pages: 206
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9780826361905
ISBN10: 0826361900
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | General