Chat Try

by Peggy Sue Wells @PeggySueWells Like delicious desserts, dialogue is often a reader�s favorite part of a story. We quote great dialogue for generations. �Off with her head!� � Lewis Carroll. �We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.� � Winston Churchill. �There�s so much scope for imagination.� Lucy Maud Montgomery. �It�s me again, Hank the Cowdog.� John Erickson. �Give back to Caesar what is Caesar�s and to God what is God�s.� � Jesus Christ. Dialogue is what characters say. Powerful stories are dialog driven through carefully chosen word selections. When Scrooge responds to Christmas cheer with �Bah, humbug,� Charles Dickens has masterfully portrayed the old man�s attitude and character in two words.  Dialogue has dynamic purpose in a manuscript. It economically accomplishes several vital objectives.  Dialogue must: 1. Move the story forward. �I�m going over there right now.� This declaration  tells the reader what direction the action is takin...

Edie here. Today I'm thrilled to have my friend and fellow author, Peggy Sue Wells on The Write Conversation. Although her post today is technically a guest post, with her expertise, I've persuaded her to become a regular part of our blogging team. Be sure to give her a warm welcome, and note that her book, Homeless for the Holidays is available as a 99cnt ebook today! 20 Tips for Writers & Radio Interviews by Peggy Sue Wells @PeggySueWells You've heard of surprise parties? Well, I became the surprise producer for award-winning WBCL's Mid-Morning. For a couple decades, the hosts of the one-hour talk show kindly invited me on the program each time my books released. Then they invited me to host a quarterly show to encourage single parents. I'd been around the studio often enough that someone must have thought I worked there and gave me a desk and an official title. Then people started handing me projects to do, mail to open, and authors to schedule. They taught m...