Calling all authors... anyone have any good guides to writing dialouge?

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by nostromo
Card and King can hardly be called masters.

...and how many Hugo and Nebula Awards has Card won??

[Nostromo]

...and how many Hugo and Nebula Awards has Card won??

You would say he's a master?

Btw, I've read some writers who don't even use quotation marks, they use only the em dash. Based on my experience, however, its not common in english. An exemple:

Buck Mulligan peeped an instant under the mirror and then covered the bowl smartly.

-- Back to the barracks! he said sternly.

He added in a preacher's tone:

-- For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine christine: body and soul and blood and ouns. Slow music, please. Shut your eyes, gents. One moment. [...].

[TCO]

http://www.sff.net/people/Brian_Plante/chronicles.htm

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by nostromo


You would say he's a master?

Btw, I've read some writers who don't even use quotation marks, they use only the em dash. Based on my experience, however, its not common in english. An exemple:

I only seen that used in two situations...

First was when a author was trying to write in an very experimental fashion.

The other was an author who used it to designate the speakers were using a language other than English:

--This man is not a purchasing agent from Universal Exports. He's secret agent James Bond.
--We must kill him then.
"I hope you two are discussing getting me a vodka martini, shaken not stirred. ...Uh oh. No martini??"

[Vesayen]

YOU WILL NOT SLANDER THE NAME OF THE GREAT CARD! ><

CAAAAAAAAAAAARD!

[Lorizael]

Card's good, but his biases show very clearly through his work, and that can get annoying.

[Q Classic]

Fiction != Reporting. It's okay to have a bit more subjectiveness, methinks.

[Lorizael]

I don't disagree. I just think he gets annoying is all.