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Roarin’ and bubblin’ – writing good dialogue
Posted: 06/11/13 12:52 |
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‘Great dialogue, like great music, soars off the page’, says Laura Schellhardt in ‘Screenwriting for Dummies’. Since 1927, every writer has needed to be able to write good dialogue. Not that it didn’t matter before then. It’s just that afterwards it mattered more as talkies came to the cinema screen with ‘The Jazz Singer’. By […]
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Press on
Posted: 04/11/13 12:43 |
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A character using public office to get something done was the initial idea for OCA creative writing student Keith Hutson’s latest play ‘The Champion’ in which a councillor makes the most of his position by setting up a boxing club for disadvantaged kids. Earlier this year, ‘The Champion’ made it to the last 150 from […]
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