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- Level
- Mixed
- Basic and Premium Members Prices
- Premium Members $30 & Basic Members $40
- Category
- Characters
- Editing
- Dialogue
- Voice
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In this workshop, through lecture and exercises, we'll look at ways to use dialogue to create characters your reader won't want to forget, add tension to your plot, and increase the pacing to produce a story your reader will hate to put down.
- Outline
- Week I- Why We Write Dialogue
1. One of the Best Ways to Show
2. Reveals Character, Mood, Tension, Conflict, Growth
3. Reveals Back Story
4. Gives Reader Information
5. Increases the Pacing
Week II- How to Write Dialogue
1. Real and Appropriate for Character, Time, Place
2. Chit-Chat and Pleasantries
3. Accents and Dialect
Week III- Pairing Speech and Action Tags with Dialogue
1. Speech Tags
2. Action Beats
3. Unattributed Dialogue
Week IV- The Grammar of Dialogue
1. Use of Quotation Marks
2. Punctuation
3. Internal Dialogue
4. Paragraphing
