When my teenage son picked up “Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing” (Morrow, 96 pp., $14.95), it fell open to Rule 3: “Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.” “I wish my teachers could ...

At the end of a movie, when emotions are already running high, a great line of dialogue can feel like a force of its own. “That’ll do, pig,” from Babe (1995) is one of the finest examples of this. The ...

The vast majority of scripts contain dialogue. It's likely therefore that your (yes, you, reading this - your) script contains dialogue, too. Now, of course, some actors are prone to ad libbing around ...

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 of ...