Living Dialog: Bring Your Characters' Words to Life, Part One: The Basics Plot & Structure Jim taught writing at Pepperdine

Jim taught writing at Pepperdine University and now appears at numerous conferences

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Living Dialog: Bring Your Characters' Words to Life, Part One: The Basics Plot & Structure Jim taught writing at PepperdineTruly living dialog is brilliantly crafted, perfectly vivid, exactly appropriate, layered and nuanced. . . and it just sounds right. In this two part, 57 minute tutorial we'll start with the basics, including the subtleties of punctuation, the varied of verbs of speaking, the options for attribution, and all important non verbal communication that brings a character to life. Editor and author Philip Athans has worked with best selling veteran authors,