Succinctly stated useful tips, especially slanted dialogue and reading aloud. Do you have advice on how to intersperse action and description with dialogue? How to show and tell simultaneously through it? Thanks...
Love this question! I teach a tool called "laying down tracks" - just like in music. Essentially, try this: write your dialogue first - just the dialogue. Then, go back through the scene and add the "track" of setting - where are the characters? Then go back and add gesture - what are the characters doing with their bodies? Then go back and add other pieces, like sensory details and what the characters are thinking that they AREN'T saying. Let me know if this helps!
@@wearewritingbrave Thanks for the promptness and enthusiasm.... besides the awesome tip! Sounds so simple. Why did I never think of it? :) Eager to check out more of your videos... keep writing...
Great information. Should you use double quotes or single quotes? Thanks.
Double quotes if you're American. ;) The Brits use single quotes for dialogue.
Succinctly stated useful tips, especially slanted dialogue and reading aloud. Do you have advice on how to intersperse action and description with dialogue? How to show and tell simultaneously through it? Thanks...
Love this question! I teach a tool called "laying down tracks" - just like in music. Essentially, try this: write your dialogue first - just the dialogue. Then, go back through the scene and add the "track" of setting - where are the characters? Then go back and add gesture - what are the characters doing with their bodies? Then go back and add other pieces, like sensory details and what the characters are thinking that they AREN'T saying. Let me know if this helps!
@@wearewritingbrave Thanks for the promptness and enthusiasm.... besides the awesome tip! Sounds so simple. Why did I never think of it? :) Eager to check out more of your videos... keep writing...