When really, the best way to get better is just to write a lot. But dialogue is one of those tricky things that feels completely subjective to the person reading it. What I want to focus on today ...

Utilize these tips to make sure that the punctuation of your dialogue is correct. “I am writing,” he said. Notice the comma mark is within the quotation marks in this instance. He said, “I’m writing.” ...

What happens when you track dialogue patterns across 90 years of cinema? I ran the numbers on 60,000 films to find out.

Creative nonfiction allows me to tell someone “I love you” and “You hurt me” in the same breath. It allows me to tell a place that I love it and simultaneously despise it.

In most writing, you might write things like 'he said', but in a script you just write dialogue. We put the character’s name on the left, and what they need to say on the right. Mick ...

Delaying or removing the source of an action is what contributes to a sentence’s passiveness. Passive sentences can contribute to unclear writing by delaying or avoiding direct reference to the agent ...

and I wanted to find out exactly why Sorkin's writing sounds so distinctive. Administrator: I don't understand. Mark: Which part? Narrator: So I counted every syllable in each line of dialogue and ...