How to Write Dazzling Dialogue: The Fastest Way to Improve Any Manuscript (Bell on Writing) Paperback – July 14, 2014

Very helpful book on writing dialogue by master James Scott Bell. Filled with many suggestions and examples to make dialogue better. Worth the read.

Such a wonderful book with great examples to illustrate his points! Really will have to read this book and refer to it again and again!

I appreciate the activities and side tasks to improve dialogue. There were many examples from different genres. I only wish he spent more time deepening these topics as I found his writing clear, concise, and creative.

All the books I've written to this point have been nonfiction. Having completed my first draft of my first novel, a very helpful; editor/publisher told me one thing I really need to work on is my dialog. It's true, and having read this book by James Scott Bell, I learned a ton. This book is a quick read, but in its pages, Bell lays out a ton of information with many great examples from classic books and some of his own titles to boot. Bell is creative and innovative and this book even contains some well placed humor. This makes for a very informative book that is a pleasure to read. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and plan to refer to it often as I proceed to work up my second draft. If you're thinking about writing fiction, you need to check this book out.

Concise, well structured, great advice. I’m going to read his whole series now. Highly recommended for any aspiring fiction author. Six stars.

3.5I LOVE his other book called How to Write Bestselling Fiction. I gave it five stars, but damn near everything he said in the chapter on writing dazzling dialogue is just repeated in this book here. GREAT information if you want to spend less money BUT just buy the other book, which I had already done, so this was a waste of my money.

This is a great book. I thought because I talk so much, I could write dialogue. Not true. There's an art and a craft to it. The points in this book are so easy to comprehend that I recommend it to new writes and intermediate writers who want a measurement tool to make sure you're doing it the best you can.

This book offers a few great tips, exercises, and ideas. Overall I’m glad I picked it up. But I feel a bit like we weren’t let in on the deeper secrets; that somehow how more elevating ideas were left off the page. Yes, I’m glad I read it, but I wish there were more - or at least I come away feeling like there was more, we just weren’t privy.Like writing itself, dialog is a skill, but also an intuitive exercise. For some it seems to come naturally (I can only imagine the inside of Aaron Sorkin’s mind) flowing like water over the falls, while for others, work, practice, and skills come in handy, but are earned. Some will take their work, effort, and accumulated knowledge and develop their skills to workable, even admirable levels. Others still can only beat out words with blood, sweat, and tears the vehicle on while they are delivered.In reading this book I felt as if it were the basics and we’d get to a higher level, eventually.But we never got there.Again, I am glad I got it, have it for future reference, but I come away feeling not completely wowed nor guided. Writing and writing dialog come to each of us differently. This was a nice step along the path of professional development.