Wherein Sarah Gives Away Stuff

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Remember sometime back I told you I’d be giving away some of the writers’ books cluttering my shelf?

The first up is Writing Dialogue by Tom Chiarella.

Tell me why you’d deserve it and amuse me.  I’ll notify the winner via LJ message, and he/she can then send me address and postage. 

Going once, going twice…

(I must clear the bookshelves.)

7 thoughts on “Wherein Sarah Gives Away Stuff”

  1. “Got any wine?”
    “She’s offering a book on dialog.”
    “So?”
    “So I want it, but I have to prove I need it.”
    “Got any wine?”
    “Only the leftover Chianti. I should get all the punctuation wrong or something.”
    “Yeah, that’ll do it. Where’s the wine?”
    “Behind the calf brain. Seriously, what do you think I should do?”
    “Get a new bottle of wine, this is awful.”
    “About the dialog book? How can I convince her to send it to me?”
    “Don’t tell her about the calf brain.”

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  2. Well, I could definitely use the book because I’ve zero clue about writing dialogue, the end result of which is that I’ve got talking head syndrome and all of my characters sound just like me (verbose, parenthetical and blathering on about every single thought that comes into their head).

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  4. dialogue is one of the most difficult aspects of writing for me as well. I write mostly epic fantasy. Part of my problem with dialogue is many of my characters are powerful people. So when they say something it really isn’t opened up for debate. So my scenes tend to have people telling other people to do things and very few actual conversations.
    This is the biggest weakness for me as a writer and one I know I need to fix if I want to become a published author someday.

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