The Book of Dialogue,9781584653615

The Book of Dialogue

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9781584653615
ISBN10: 1584653612
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-02-01
Publisher(s): Univ Pr of New England
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Summary

Originally published in 1989, this revised and expanded edition focuses on the art and craft of writing effective dialogue in fiction, cinema, television, drama, radio, and poetry. Turco's unique technique teaches by showing: he creates a Socratic dialogue as the form of the book itself. Says the author, "Plato wrote lies in order to tell the truth. That's what a fiction writer does and has always done." The book covers how to: * Write dialogue that is believable as conversation--carefully selected, paced, and organized. * Break up dialogue at strategic places with action, replies, scene-setting and other elements vital to telling your story. * Balance dialogue and other story elements * Dramatize conflict through dialogue. * Use dialogue to lay the groundwork for upcoming events in the story.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 Definitions 5(21)
Savants
13(5)
Bordello
18(8)
Chapter 2 Speech in Narration 26(49)
An Old-Fashioned Kind of Guy
29(16)
One Sunday Morning
45(9)
The Man in the Booth
54(7)
Pleasant Dell
61(14)
Chapter 3 Diction 75(35)
Scot on the Rocks
90(20)
Chapter 4 Types of Speech 110(54)
Pocoangelini 7
130(3)
Barrow Yard
133(4)
Shipmates
137(27)
Chapter 5 Genre Dialogue 164(21)
Murgatroyd Tries Again
167(9)
The Museum of Ordinary People
176(9)
Index 185

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