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- Level
- Mixed
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- Premium Members $30 & Basic Members $40
- Category
- Characters
- Dialogue
- Voice
[bcolor=transparent]We’ve all slogged through novels with boring, predictable, or chit-chat dialogue. In many genres, dialogue makes up half of the novel, so dialogue can make or break your bond with readers. Discover how to craft purposeful, quotable dialogue by applying techniques used by screenwriters and playwrights. This month-long workshop offers ten practical lessons to apply immediately to your book. The lessons are: discovering when and when not to use dialogue, infusing conflict, employing text and subtext, creating suspense, transforming the predictable, cutting to the chase, individualizing characters through speech markers, applying the stimulus/response pattern for clarity, using three types of tags to show goals motivations and conflict, and formatting and punctuating dialogue properly. The first ten students who sign up will receive a critique of the first 30 pages of their own manuscript.[/bcolor]
[bcolor=transparent] Students will have ten assignments or lessons to apply to their current manuscript which they can receive feedback from Joni. She will answer questions and give 30-page critiques to the first 10 students who sign up.[/bcolor]
[bcolor=transparent] Students will have ten assignments or lessons to apply to their current manuscript which they can receive feedback from Joni. She will answer questions and give 30-page critiques to the first 10 students who sign up.[/bcolor]
- Syllabus
- [bcolor=transparent]At the end of the workshop students will be able to:[/bcolor]
[bcolor=transparent]1.[/bcolor] [bcolor=transparent]Identify the purposes and limitations of dialogue.[/bcolor]
[bcolor=transparent]2.[/bcolor] [bcolor=transparent]Infuse dialogue with conflict. Make each conversation matter. Apply one acting technique and nine elements to show how to enliven any dialogue whether the scene is a polite debates or a violent confrontation.[/bcolor]
[bcolor=transparent]3.[/bcolor] [bcolor=transparent]Construct dialogue with depth of meaning that flows at two levels.[/bcolor]
[bcolor=transparent]4.[/bcolor] [bcolor=transparent]Fine tune dialogue to create suspense and to raise questions in the reader’s mind.[/bcolor]
[bcolor=transparent]5.[/bcolor] [bcolor=transparent]Transform predictable exchanges into memorable, fresh dialogue using a simple creativity technique. [/bcolor]
[bcolor=transparent]6.[/bcolor] [bcolor=transparent]Craft believable, dynamic conversations that cut to the chase. Apply the less-is more adage to dialogue. Learn when to summarize and use fragment quotes.[/bcolor]
[bcolor=transparent]7.[/bcolor] [bcolor=transparent]Talk the talk. Individualize characters through dialogue using any of eleven revealing markers. See how to conduct field research to capture a character’s voice.[/bcolor]
[bcolor=transparent]8.[/bcolor] [bcolor=transparent]Apply the stimulus/response pattern to maintain clarity of action in a scene.[/bcolor]
[bcolor=transparent]9.[/bcolor] [bcolor=transparent]Use dialogue tags, action tags and thought tags to show character’s goals, motivations and conflicts.[/bcolor]
[bcolor=transparent]10.[/bcolor] [bcolor=transparent]Format and punctuate dialogue properly.[/bcolor]