Roads to Writing 1. Making Your Characters Speak

David McRobbie is an Australian writer for children and young adults who has written and published more than forty books, ten radio plays and three television series, all of which employ dialogue. He’s been at the writing game for fifty-six years and now wants to put some of his techniques on record. Roads To Writing, the first e-book in a proposed series, looks at how to lay out dialogue when it comes to telling your stories. The book contains many examples, which not only show how to make your characters speak, but also to demonstrate the effects that a writer’s words can have on the reader. There are pitfalls a-plenty in the writing game so why not let these gentle words guide your hand?