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DIALOGUE FOR FICTION WRITERS
My students often say that I hate dialogue. I don't hate dialogue, I love it--when it's really well done. What I hate is bad dialogue. Dialogue that marches down the page like a screenplay. Dialogue that's just a bunch of 'meet and greet'. Dialogue without conflict. Dialogue that's weighed down by exposition like a racehorse carrying a bathtub. Dialogue that no actor would want to say. Dialogue that's exactly what the reader expects.
So, I'm teaching a virtual writing workshop the weekend of Dec. 3-5, in Dialogue for Fiction Writers - five two hour Zoom sessions through the Community of Writers, where we'll address what makes good dialogue in fiction. This is dialogue for the page. Not the stage, not the screen. Fiction has tools these other media don't have. We'll examine those tools and other elements of great fictional dialogue. For more info, go to
www.communityofwriters.org/events/eve...
So, I'm teaching a virtual writing workshop the weekend of Dec. 3-5, in Dialogue for Fiction Writers - five two hour Zoom sessions through the Community of Writers, where we'll address what makes good dialogue in fiction. This is dialogue for the page. Not the stage, not the screen. Fiction has tools these other media don't have. We'll examine those tools and other elements of great fictional dialogue. For more info, go to
www.communityofwriters.org/events/eve...
