Getting Started
  • Introduction
  • Showing versus Telling
  • Clarity
  • Keeping it Simple
  • Reader Reviews
Understanding Dialogue
  • Impossible Tags
  • Action Tags
  • Adverbs
  • Said Says it All
  • Exceptions to Said
  • Filler Words
  • Keeping Sentences Short
  • Incomplete Sentences
  • Accents
  • Purpose
  • Character Names
  • Explaining Things
Punctuation, Grammar and Formatting
  • Multiple Speakers
  • Beats
  • Punctuation
  • Conflicting Styles
  • Quotation Marks
  • Periods, Commas and Capitals
  • Ellipses and Dashes
  • Exclamation Points
  • Paragraph Breaks
  • Placement of Tags
Special Techniques
  • A Dragon Technique
  • Outlining
  • Real Life Recording
  • Stripped Bare
  • Listening
Final Words
  • Final Words