At last month’s AdventureX 2018 conference, game developer and Inkle Studios co-founder Jon Ingold offered a practical skills workshop about writing better dialogue for games. It involved a lot ...

A less positive aspect of these early episodes is that they seem to meander from scene to scene without having much story backbone. Maybe that will change, or maybe I’ll get used to it, but I ...

In most writing, speech punctuation is used to show when a character is speaking. In a script you just write the dialogue (what the character is saying) without any speech punctuation.

I think a lot of beginning writers are always looking for cheat codes or fast ways to improve their writing. When really, the best way to get better is just to write a lot.

Study Bad Dialogue “Bad writing can be more helpful to read than good writing,” McKee says. “Because the first draft of anything you write is not going to be your best work.

The Faber Writing Academy's Kathryn Heyman on the art of dialogue in fiction Kathryn Heyman February 27, 2015 — 11.45pm Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ...