Description
Here’s a quick test: take a page of your dialogue, remove every ‘he said’ and ‘she said,’ and see if you can tell who’s talking. If the answer is no, congratulations — you’ve contracted Same Voice Syndrome, and it’s the most common dialogue disease in creative writing. This planner is the cure. Inside you’ll find the ‘Voice DNA Profile’ — a detailed worksheet for building each character’s unique speech patterns, vocabulary level, sentence rhythm, verbal tics, and communication style, a ‘Subtext Surgery’ section for writing conversations where what’s NOT said is the real story, dialogue pacing exercises for controlling the rhythm and tension of conversations, an ‘Eavesdropping Assignment’ protocol (yes, you’ll go to coffee shops and listen to strangers — ethically), genre-specific dialogue guides for romance, thriller, sci-fi, literary fiction, and more, a ‘Dialogue Autopsy’ where you analyze published examples of great and terrible dialogue, an exposition-through-dialogue workshop (because info-dumping in conversation is a crime), and read-aloud testing pages. L.A. Walton has written dialogue for page, stage, and screen, and she can hear a flat conversation from a mile away. After this planner, so will you.
