WRITING: Dialogue

I love to pick other writers’ brains, and weblogs are the perfect places to offer easy access. At The Word Foundry, in Fun With Dialogue, Joe Faust graciously shares a terrific point about show and tell (or show versus tell, rather) in writing dialogue. Bringing in the element of word use and accent of characters, he reviews a book he is reading and offers examples of good dialogue that gives readers a full image of a character without needless description. He also points out what not to do in writing conversation, and his experience adds to the valuable lesson we can learn by example.