by P. S. Hoffman | Dec 18, 2018 | Dialogue
Star Wars lied to me. I fell in love with a cast of vivid and varied characters. How can you not be inspired? So I tried, dozens of times, to write my own. I could hear my characters’ voices in my head. But it turns out… …screenwriters have it easy....
by P. S. Hoffman | Nov 21, 2017 | Dialogue, How to Write
Good dialogue will punch you in the chest. It will swing like a fist out of the dark, and when it hits it will make your heart stop. But when writing dialogue, most writers miss. Even professionals make some major mistakes (I’ll show you a few examples in a minute)....
by P. S. Hoffman | Nov 14, 2017 | Dialogue, How to Write
I missed out. I never read Hemingway when I was young. I’m glad I fixed that, because I was missing out. In Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants, you quickly become acquainted with his powerful use of subtext and rapid characterization. In For Whom the Bell...
