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 ...

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 ...

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 ...