Great dialogue attracts great actors. It grabs the attention of eminent directors. It impresses smart producers. It enthralls an audience. In twenty lessons, Talk the Talk gives screenwriters and playwrights a complete tool kit for mastering the art of dialogue. To complement the lessons, the Talk the Talk includes more than eighty dialogue-writing exercises. There are exercises for beginner, intermediate and advanced writers; discussion and feedback questions to guide classrooms, workshops and writers' groups; rewrite exercises to sharpen dialogue scenes; solo exercises to repeat as a regular writer's work-out; and script analysis exercises which examine how key concepts play out in existing scripts. By using this book to master dialogue writing, authors can breathe life into their characters and create scripts which stand out from the crowd.