WSJ's Michael Hsu offers 4 tips to help you improve the clarity. Photo/video: Drew Evans/The Wall Street Journal. Q: When I’m watching movies on my TV, I often have trouble hearing the dialogue. My ...

I often find that putting dialogue onto the page for your characters is one of them ore challenging aspects of all writing. That's because dialogue serves a bunch of purposes in writing. You might be ...

Realistic dialogue is not necessarily good dialogue. Yes we all say “well” and “so” and “um”, but I get enough of it in the real world. I go to the theatre, see a movie or read a book to escape the ...

Death Sentence and occasional X-Men writer Monty Nero lays out nine foolproof ways to write wonderful dialogue. He offers these tips because of his incredibly giving nature and not because he wants ...

When I went to the University of Southern California for my MFA in screenwriting, I took a one-hour TV drama course for my thesis. My thesis adviser said there were three types of TV writers: “big ...