Write Angles: Creating Characters And Writing Dialogue

Nobody will ever care about your brilliant plot if they don’t care about your characters. Learn how to create characters that live on and off the page, including how to make them sound real, make them sound believable – and make sure they don’t all sound like you.

Whether it’s for scriptwriting TV, films, stage and radio, or for prose fiction, dialogue and character are key to connecting to your audience. Thinking about character tells you how they speak, and thinking about how they speak can teach you more about your own characters.

William Gallagher is a writer of prose and scripts. He writes  Doctor Who radio dramas and is the author of 19 non-fiction books  including the British Film Institute’s BFI TV Classics: The Beiderbecke  Affair.