When my teenage son picked up “Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing” (Morrow, 96 pp., $14.95), it fell open to Rule 3: “Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.” “I wish my teachers could ...

Keeping things vague for a purpose and being unclear about what to say are two different things. As a writer myself, being stuck on vague ideas sucks. It slows you down and makes your writing dull.

If you're a writer, you know we're all aspiring toward great dialogue. Dialogue that's tense, exciting, melodic, and full of subtext, or maybe punchy and raw. Many will point to writer/director ...

Maybe you’re thinking about writing a screenplay, but don’t know where to start. Or maybe you’re interested in following in the footsteps of writer-directors such as Mindy Kaling or Jordan Peele.

Bob: Hey Jim, what's that you've got there in your hand? Jim: Why it's the new TechDork 2500 Smart Tablet with 64 gigs of memory. ARRRRGH! Few things are more painful to listen to than bad dialogue.

Could you offer any tips on writing convincing dialogue? I find it a real struggle. —George In the right hands, dialogue can move things along in a way that will leave you breathless,” Anne Lamott ...

SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack Center for Writing in Saranac Lake is hosting a free dialogue writing workshop, “Devising Dialogue: Writing from Plays” with LJ Schwartau, on April 17, from 7 to 8:30 p.m ...

The vast majority of scripts contain dialogue. It's likely therefore that your (yes, you, reading this - your) script contains dialogue, too. Now, of course, some actors are prone to ad libbing around ...