Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques

The Mechanics of Writing Dialogue

TV-PG
S1 • E7    Nov 12, 2014    30m
Shift your attention from building characters to figuring out what they should say. This lecture provides an overview of the nuts and bolts of dialogue, from the rules of punctuation to the way writers use dialogue tags to add clarity to a conversation. See how what a character says can create meaning and evoke mood.

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