Showing posts with label distinctive dialogue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label distinctive dialogue. Show all posts
26 August 2020

Christie Exercises the Little Grey Cells

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Reading Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles , for the first time, I was struck by how she used dialogue to give...
12 November 2014

Writing Advice from Leonard and Busiek

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In 2001, Elmore Leonard published an essay in the New York Times ’s “Writers on Writing” series headlined “Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamatio...
27 June 2013

Big-Budget Action Movies Losing Their Wit

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Last night I saw Man of Steel . It reminded me of Oz the Great and Powerful in that both movies are carefully made to trigger our memorie...
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02 April 2013

“He wasn’t so much of a Wizard as he might have been.”

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This is how Tip, the young hero of L. Frank Baum ’s second Oz book , explains the first to his creation Jack Pumpkinhead: “Where are we g...
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12 March 2011

Stan Lee’s Dialogues

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Bleeding Cool just published a long transcript of Stan Lee ’s deposition about the emergence of the Marvel superhero universe back in the e...
27 March 2009

The Reasons Why

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From Bookgasm, a few of Alan Mott's "50 Reasons No One Wants to Publish Your First Book" : 2. There’s this thing called punctu...
29 September 2008

A New Use for Single Quote Marks?

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My final posting for this Oz and Ends PUNCTUATION WEEK concerns a use of quotation marks in fiction that's not standard, as far as I can...
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17 May 2008

Dot Dot Dot

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You folks have probably figured out that PUNCTUATION WEEK at Oz and Ends is really an excuse for me to grouse about the deficiencies of my w...
08 May 2008

Speech Balloon Variety in Oz: The Manga

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In its use of the comics form, David Hutchison 's Oz: The Manga didn't impress me quite as much as Michael Cavallaro's adaptati...
12 February 2008

The Marx Fantasy Dialogue Scale

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In her book Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games , Christy Marx writes, “Creating the right fantasy dialogue depends a great deal on ho...
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25 May 2007

Distinctive Dialogue

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Last Sunday, in my workshop on dialogue and dialogue tags at SCBWI New England's annual conference, I promised to post some material fro...