The Screenwrightist

Dialogue may just seem like people chatting but it's not. People talk to get things they want. Be it attention, a glass of water or for a spouse to take out the garbage; we don't JUST talk. We talk to settle conflicts: I want to watch one TV show...

Stories can be just about actions and not character. The reader identifies with the protagonist rather than empathizing and becomes the character doing the actions. They can get a jolt from the mental pictures and imagining themselves in certain situations...

As much as writers of fiction want to be able to write whatever they want, they will find limitations. These aren't only limitations of mind but also of the audience. Audiences have a threshold for fantasy in fiction and an expectation...

At one time novels were the foremost way to tell complex stories of all types. All the genres that now span all types of media were put into books at one time or another. Even serial stories, which might have been first published in newspapers, would later be compiled...

As a writer you might just write whatever comes to you whenever it comes to you. If you're writing a novel and you feel you need pages of dialogue then you'll write those pages without regard for whether they are best kept in that novel. When you write dialogue...