- Level
- Mixed
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- Category
- Characters
- Dialogue
- Plotting
- $5 off Early Registration Coupon-expires 1 week before class starts
- REVEALINGBERNSTEIN2024
- Class Length
- 2 Weeks
You’ve plotted your novel, mapped your main character’s “arc” of change, and set your story in motion. Now for the hardest part of all: Figuring out what all these people should say to one another—and to themselves.
The writer and poet Elizabeth Bowen once said, “Dialogue is what characters do to each another.” In this week-long class, multi-genre author, speechwriter, playwright, and former award-winning journalist Amy L. Bernstein will share telling passages of dialogue from a range of literary sources to help you analyze how words spoken and withheld serve to define and distinguish characters and move your story along.
You will study the role of action beats and the mental, physical, and verbal components that establish context and generate the conflict your story needs. And you’ll have ample opportunities to write and receive feedback on dialogue-heavy scenes in response to specific prompts. You’ll learn why and how “Voice is not a choice. It’s a result,” as author Robert McKee says.
The writer and poet Elizabeth Bowen once said, “Dialogue is what characters do to each another.” In this week-long class, multi-genre author, speechwriter, playwright, and former award-winning journalist Amy L. Bernstein will share telling passages of dialogue from a range of literary sources to help you analyze how words spoken and withheld serve to define and distinguish characters and move your story along.
You will study the role of action beats and the mental, physical, and verbal components that establish context and generate the conflict your story needs. And you’ll have ample opportunities to write and receive feedback on dialogue-heavy scenes in response to specific prompts. You’ll learn why and how “Voice is not a choice. It’s a result,” as author Robert McKee says.
- Class Format
- Savvy Authors' workshops are held on a forum: a bulletin board based system. You will receive a reminder notice one day prior to the start of the workshop that includes instructions on how to access the workshop forum. If you have not received instructions by the day the workshop begins, please check your spam filter.
The forum will be available the morning (EST) of the day the workshop starts and will remain accessible to all participants thereafter. You will also be given simple instructions on how to create a PDF of all your discussions along with our privacy and data retention policy.
