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Product Description Unlike the chitchat of everyday life, dialogue must express character, advance the story, suggest a theme, and include a few memorable lines that audiences will be quoting for decades to come.The best stories have dialogue that sparkles, but it’s easy for inexperienced writers to fall into common pitfalls like creating dialogue that’s wooden or too on the nose. Other writers end up with exposition awkwardly inserted into conversations, actors tripping over unnatural phrases, or characters who all speak exactly the same way. In You Talkin’ to Me?, Linda Seger and John Winston Rainey are here to help with all your dialogue problems. In each chapter, they explore dialogue from a different angle and discuss examples of great dialogue from films and novels. To cap it all off, each chapter ends with examples of poor dialogue, which are annotated by Linda and then rewritten by John so that listeners don’t just learn how to recognize when it’s done well?they also learn how to make dialogue better. Whether you’re writing fiction or nonfiction, for the screen or for the page, this book will get your characters talking. About the Author Dr. Linda Seger created and defined the career of script consultant in 1981. A prolific author in the area of screenwriting, she has written nine screenwriting books, two of which, Making a Good Script Great and Creating Unforgettable Characters, remain staples for writers and screenwriting classes. She has consulted on over 2,000 scripts for film and television and has given seminars in over 30 countries around the world. She currently resides with her husband and cat in Cascade, Colorado. John Winston Rainey has been involved in the dramatic arts since 1975 and has been a script consultant since 1989. He acted and directed professionally for a decade before turning his attention to screenwriting and has since written ten scripts for production companies globally. He has also written a