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Dialogue: Techniques and exercises for crafting effective dialogue

10 best books like Dialogue: Techniques and exercises for crafting effective dialogue (Gloria Kempton): Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print, Becoming a Writer, The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life, How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling, Beginnings, Middles & Ends, Story Engineering: Character Development, Story Concept, Scene Construction, Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success, The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great, Characters and Viewpoint

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN1590303164
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it...
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
AuthorRenni Browne
ISBN0060545690
"A superb tutorial for anyone wanting to learn from pros how to polish fiction writing with panache."-- Library Journal

Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn...
Becoming a Writer
AuthorDorothea Brande
ISBN0874771641
Refreshingly slim, beautifully written and deliciously elegant, Dorothea Brande's Becoming a Writer remains evergreen decades after it was first written. Brande believed passionately that although people have varying amounts of talent, anyone can write. It's just a question of finding the "writer's...
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life
AuthorJulia Cameron
ISBN1585420093
What if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revolutionary book, the author of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist's Way, asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false doctrine that stifles...
How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling
AuthorJames N. Frey
ISBN0312010443
Written in a clear, crisp, accessible style, this book is perfect for beginners as well as professional writers who need a crash course in the down-to-earth basics of storytelling. Talent and inspiration can't be taught, but Frey does provide scores of helpful suggestions and sensible rules and principles.

An...
Beginnings, Middles & Ends
AuthorNancy Kress
Get your stories off to a roaring start. Keep them tight and crisp throughout. Conclude them with a wallop.

Is the story or novel you've been carrying around in your head the same one you see on the page? Or does the dialogue suddenly sound flat and predictable? Do the events seem to ramble?

Translating...
Story Engineering: Character Development, Story Concept, Scene Construction
AuthorLarry Brooks
ISBN1582979987
I went into this book having read the other reviews, so I knew what I was getting. I agree whole-heartedly with a number of things other people have said:

~It drowns itself in metaphors and analogies.

~The author comes off as being hugely egotistical.

~The first 10 -15 % of the...
Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success
AuthorK.M. Weiland
ISBN0978924622
Writers often look upon outlines with fear and trembling. But when properly understood and correctly wielded, the outline is one of the most powerful weapons in a writer’s arsenal. Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success will:

Help you choose the right type of outline for you
Guide...
The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great
AuthorDonald Maass
Discover the Difference Between a So-So Manuscript and a Novel Readers Can't Forget

We've all read them: novels by our favorite authors that disappoint. Uninspired and lifeless, we wonder what happened. Was the author in a hurry? Did she have a bad year? Has he lost interest altogether?

Something...
Characters and Viewpoint
AuthorOrson Scott Card
Vivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be made.

This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your memory, your imagination and your soul.

Award-winning...
The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life
AuthorNoah Lukeman
ISBN0312309287
As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on the page. Lukeman shows beginning and advanced writers how to implement the fundamentals of successful plot development, such as character building...
Scene & Structure
AuthorJack M. Bickham
ISBN0898799066
Craft your fiction with scene-by-scene flow, logic and readability. An imprisoned man receives an unexpected caller, after which "everything changed..."

And the reader is hooked. But whether or not readers will stay on for the entire wild ride will depend on how well the writer structures...
The Writer's Idea Book
AuthorJack Heffron
"Where do you get your ideas?"



It's a question and a quandary that bedevils every writer. And once you've got an idea, what then? Ideas without a plan, without a purpose, are no more than pleasant thoughts.



In The Writer's Idea Book, Jack Heffron, former senior editor...
The Writer's Guide to Character Traits: Includes Profiles of Human Behaviors and Personality Types
AuthorLinda N. Edelstein
This was a good idea but completely useless. Nothing went into enough depth to be useful, but the biggest problem is that although it was written in 1999, most of the sources used were already out of date and obsolete then. She uses Masters & Johnson from the 60's for information about homsexuality....
45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters
AuthorVictoria Lynn Schmidt
ISBN1582970696
I've never cared for the eurocentric "hero's journey" and this book relies entirely on those archetypal characters and story arcs. It claims to be a feminist update, with separate female characters and both feminine and masculine journeys. The author does state briefly in the introduction that those...
The Art of War for Writers: Fiction Writing Strategies, Tactics, and Exercises
AuthorJames Scott Bell
ISBN1582975906
Successfully starting and finishing a publishable novel is often like fighting a series of battles - against the page, against one's own self-doubt, against rebellious characters, etc. Featuring timeless, innovative, and concise writing strategies and focused exercises, this book is the ultimate...
Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time
AuthorJordan E. Rosenfeld
ISBN1582974799
Bottom line, Rosenfeld covers scene structure, scene types, and everything that goes in to a scene.

Specifically, she covers:
The Architecture of a Scene--Beginnings (Launches), Middles and Ends
Core Elements--Setting, Senses, Character, Plot, etc.
Scene Types--First...
20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them
AuthorRonald B. Tobias
ISBN1582972397
Give your story a solid foundation - a plot that engages readers from start to finish! The best stories linger in the hearts and minds of readers for decades. These tales gain their power through plots that connect with the audience on both an emotional and intellectual level.Inside, Ronald B. Tobias...
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