Writing and Publishing Your First Fiction Novel
Dialogue
A course by João Tordo , Author
About the video: Dialogue
Overview
“How can you elevate your prose? Here, I will give you some tips on writing better dialogue. This can be a challenging aspect of writing fiction. With my suggestions, you will learn how to construct better conversations between your characters—conversations that filter out the banalities of day-to-day life! ”
In this video lesson João Tordo addresses the topic: Dialogue, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing and Publishing Your First Fiction Novel. Develop an original idea into a compelling manuscript that’s ready to share with publishers by exploring story structure, characters, perspective, and editing.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Dialogue In this lesson, we'll talk about dialogue. Dialogue is one of the most difficult parts of fiction. Many writers go at it and fail. Others go at it and fail again. It's hard to make characters talk. There are some tips though that we can use and some suggestions I'm going to make for you to become a better dialogue maker. Dialogue should be language without all the small ifs, buts, hesitations, and pauses that constitute our day-to-day speech. If dialogue was as long and boring as our day-to-day speech, no one would want to read dialogue. Here are a few tips on how to construct be...”
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Course summary for: Writing and Publishing Your First Fiction Novel
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Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
João Tordo
A course by João Tordo
João Tordo is an award-winning author based in Lisbon, Portugal. As a child, he was obsessed with books and knew from an early age he wanted to be a storyteller. He went on to study writing in New York and published his first book, The Book of Lightless Men in 2004.
He’s since published 18 books and won multiple awards including the José Saramago Literary Prize, the Fernando Namora Prize, and the GQ Prize. His books are published around the world in countries like France, Hungary, Spain, Brazi, and Mexico. He has also worked on shows for Netflix, including Until Life Do Us Part.
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