Writing Better Dialogue
Use dialogue to add depth to character and drive your plot forward.
With a side order of just where to place those dratted speech marks.
People read books to immerse themselves in another place and time and watch a story unfold. As writers, we want to pull our readers into our world and make them feel a part of that story. Dialogue is one of our key tools for doing that.
Dialogue helps characters seem real. It gives them depth and identity. It can also move plot along, adding pace and tension. Conflict can be created or increased by dialogue. Red herrings scattered in a detective's path. Emotions revealed or hidden.
This course looks at how to write better, believable and character driven dialogue, and answers common questions like how often should speech tags be used, and how to lay out and punctuate speech to make sure your readers understand everything that is said.
Course Curriculum
- Writing better dialogue - with an in depth look at speech tags.
- Using dialogue to show character
- How dialogue can help drive your story forward.
- How to set out and punctuate dialogue.
Choose a pricing plan
Buy 'Writing Better Dialogue' for a one off price of £29.99 (UK price - price in other countries may vary because of differing taxes).
PLEASE NOTE: This course was originally available as part of the Author Breakthrough Club mini-course range and may include references in the video tutorials to comments, chats and specific dates that are not relevant to this pre-recorded version.
About your tutor
Janet Gover grew up in rural Australia, surrounded by wide open spaces, horses and many books. She now lives behind a computer keyboard in West London, and is slave to a large furry cat.
Janet writes stories about strong women finding their own way in the world. About families and falling in love. She loves making her readers cry – but in a good way. She loves flawed characters, communities and pretty much every one of her books has horses in it – except for the one with alpacas. And the one with penguins.
She has written eighteen novels and won the Romantic Novel of the Year (UK), Romantic Book of the Year (Aust), and several USA Romance awards.
Janet is a former Television Journalist, University tutor, and Broadcast technology consultant. She is a specialist in on-line teaching for adults. She teaches at writing retreats and conferences in the UK and abroad, and provides private mentoring for writers.