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Nov 25
2009
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I've left the ancient Blue Ridge mountains surrounding my home in Asheville, North Carolina, for the young ones surrounding Tucson, Arizona, to spend Thanksgiving with Ross and visit with the home office staff. Boy, are they smart and cool and fun to hang out with!
We've been making sexy plans for our thirtieth anniversary celebrations in 2010 and cooking up other big projects too. The one I'm most excited about is DIALOGUE FOR FICTION WRITERS, which Ross at last has time to co-author with me.
His dialogue workshop is such a hit whenever he presents it, and I've given it a couple of times myself--that material will give us a great head start. And I wrote an introduction years ago when we first talked about doing the book. This one will devote only a chapter to dialogue mechanics, which are covered in SELF-EDITING FOR FICTION WRITERS. Its primary purpose will be to teach authors how to write dialogue with what Ross calls "pop"--edgy, entertaining, convincing.
We also thought of calling it DIALOGUE THAT DAZZLES but wanted resonance with the first book. Any thoughts on this from you bloggers?