#LoveOzLit: Ambelin Kwaymullina on dialogue
I’m just going to leave this here, because really — what else is there to say? Sometimes, characters already have their story and their…
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#LoveOzLit: Annah Faulkner on listening to your dialogue
Annah Faulkner reiterates advice other authors’ advice on dialogue: listen to what you’re writing. It seems such simple advice, right? But I know I wouldn’t…
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#LoveOzLit: AJ Betts on dialogue in YA
AJ Betts is an acclaimed Australian YA author and here delves straight into the heart of writing for a YA audience: staying true to young…
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#LoveOzLit: Todd Alexander’s simple trick to good dialogue
What comes to mind when looking back on the quotes of this round of #LoveOzLit quotes is how utterly, wonderfully simple the advice is….
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#LoveOzLit: Deborah Biancotti on dialogue
Deborah Biancotti is the co-author of Zeroes, a YA urban fantasy that was released late last year — and pretty much everyone was talking about…
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#LoveOzLit: Candice Fox on gender & dialogue
Candice Fox brings up an interesting point about gender and dialogue, and this is a difference I haven’t thought of before, have you? I…
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#LoveOzLit: Anne Buist on the practicalities of dialogue
In the quote above, Anne Buist tackles the practicalities of dialogue, the kind of stuff you think you know, and inevitably forget when you’re…
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#LoveOzLit: Tony Park on building characters through dialogue
Journalism demands accuracy and nothing less. It’s amazing how the slightest turn of phrase can change a meaning or rather mean something entirely different to…
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#LoveOzLit: Ailsa Piper on dialogue
The next time you’re on the bus and talking too loudly, just remember an author might be listening! I’ve listened to one too many…
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#LoveOzLit: Maria Lewis on dialogue that sings
I am envious of anyone with that indefinable something that has the perfect comeback — whether in life or on paper. Mostly, because I…
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