A Book in Review: Writing Dialogue

Writing Dialogue By: Tom Chiarella
non-fiction, writing 151 pages
Book Count: 20

This book is only about writing dialogue in your fiction. It has a small section on the actual writing rules for dialogue, i.e. where to put punctuation, paragraphing etc. But most of it is about learning to write like people speak and writing in an interesting way. It has a lot of exercises for you to do to help to write better. This ranges from writing down what you say in a day and analyzing it to writing exercises of 1-2 pages. It had a lot of useful advice in it.