James Scott Bell, a renowned author and lecturer, knows better than anyone what it takes to create a first-rate story, novel, play, or screenplay. In addition to a clearly formulated idea and a well-structured plot, authenticity and compelling characters are important. And dialogues help achieve this. This book is dedicated to the art of creating deep and vivid dialogues. The author offers a series of practical exercises and techniques for working with text that will help you improve any manuscript: make a comedy hilariously funny, a detective story exciting, a historical novel fascinating. This book will not be interesting only professional writers, but also all those who want to try their hand at being a writer, screenwriter or playwright.