Dialogue: Grammar, Dialect, and Lyrical Dialogue

by T. J. Alex

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Bad grammar ain't always no bad thing. Writers will want to write dialogue the way the characters are expected to speak it, so poor grammatical speech and dialectical writing is okay! We'll also examine how to write song lyrics and poetry as dialogue.

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Bad grammar ain't always no bad thing. Writers will want to write dialogue the way the characters are expected to speak it, so poor grammatical speech and dialectical writing is okay! We'll also examine how to write song lyrics and poetry as dialogue.

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