Books: How to Write Dazzling Dialogue

How to Write Dazzling Dialogue 
My Verdict: Read It

How to Write Dazzling Dialogue: The Fastest Way to Improve Any Manuscript by James Scott Bell is a quick, satisfying read. This book definitely has a few things every writer should know and a number of different exercises that you can try with your current work.

Most of the exercises are editing/review techniques:

• Pick a scene heavy with dialogue and randomly replace one of your lines with a random line from a published book. (Ch 6)

There are also a few which would help in plotting character relations:

• Character Web - bubble map the relationship between all characters [everything from lover, sibling, coworker, to don't know him]. (Ch 6)

And everything has examples, either short crafted sentences or from well known scripts and books. 

Pick up this book if you want a concise review about dialogue and exercises that you can try with your current work.

Homework: start two lists, exercises you have tried that succeeded/were helpful, and exercises that failed.


Rating Scale: Keep On Desk, Own it, Read it, Skim it, Don't Bother