How to write natural speech that makes your story live and breathe
Whether it's dramatic, funny, thought-provoking or revealingly mundane, dialogue is what lifts your characters off the page and makes your readers care about what happens to them over the course of the plot. To suspend disbelief, dialogue has to sound authentic, but to move an audience, it has to be better than real life. Creative writing tutor Greg Mosse leads this comprehensive course that will introduce you to a range of techniques for writing and analysing great speech. You'll learn how to vary diction, syntax, colloquialisms and idiom to help you create and sustain unique, individual voices, and how to use dialogue to engage with your readers and advance your story.
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