When my teenage son picked up “Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing” (Morrow, 96 pp., $14.95), it fell open to Rule 3: “Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.” “I wish my teachers could ...

Use dialogue to enhance storytelling with Miss Defauw. Make writing come alive! Miss Defauw shares a snowy memory and teaches students how to use dialogue to enhance storytelling and bring their ...

The vast majority of scripts contain dialogue. It's likely therefore that your (yes, you, reading this - your) script contains dialogue, too. Now, of course, some actors are prone to ad libbing around ...

At the end of a movie, when emotions are already running high, a great line of dialogue can feel like a force of its own. “That’ll do, pig,” from Babe (1995) is one of the finest examples of this. The ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. On a cool London night in 2012, the writer Louise Doughty, settling down for an evening alone, was ...

At last month’s AdventureX 2018 conference, game developer and Inkle Studios co-founder Jon Ingold offered a practical skills workshop about writing better dialogue for games. It involved a lot of ...