I'm not sure how to create a new post here, and so I'm commenting. I've finally caved in my baseless avoidance of blogging, and so I'll blog.
I'm working on a little fiction piece here for a class and I'm concentrating on using a lot of dialogue (about 70-80% of the words) mostly as an exercise to get better at the art since I hear it is a very difficult writing device to be good at. And so, the question comes to mind: who are some authors that excel at writing dialogue? So far my example has mostly been Hemingway because my characters would resemble his and my setting actually literally crosses the geographical path of his "Big Two-Hearted River". So, that's the question I pose to our esteemed group of NMU creative writers. Cheers.
"It is better to fail in originality then to succeed in imitation." -- Herman Melville
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by frost." -J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." - Terry Pratchett (Diggers)
I'm not sure how to create a new post here, and so I'm commenting. I've finally caved in my baseless avoidance of blogging, and so I'll blog.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on a little fiction piece here for a class and I'm concentrating on using a lot of dialogue (about 70-80% of the words) mostly as an exercise to get better at the art since I hear it is a very difficult writing device to be good at. And so, the question comes to mind: who are some authors that excel at writing dialogue? So far my example has mostly been Hemingway because my characters would resemble his and my setting actually literally crosses the geographical path of his "Big Two-Hearted River". So, that's the question I pose to our esteemed group of NMU creative writers.
Cheers.