The Book of Dialogue - Softcover

Turco, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1584653612 ISBN 13: 9781584653615

Publisher: University Press of New England, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Lewis Turco is Emeritus Professor and founding Director of the Program in Writing Arts at SUNY, Oswego, and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. A prolific, award-winning author, he has published twenty-one collections of poetry and nonfiction. His most recent UPNE books are The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Third Edition (2000) and The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism and Scholarship (1999). In retirement, he is the proprietor of the online antiquarian Mathom Bookshop in Dresden Mills, Maine.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584653612
• ISBN 13: 9781584653615
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200