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. Learn how to craft purposeful, quotable dialogue, by discovering and applying techniques used by screenwriters and playwrights.
Participants will learn how to:
- Determine when to use dialogue and when to use description
- Infuse conflict into a scene
- Employ text and subtext
- Create suspense
- Transform the predictable
- Cut to the chase
- Individualize characters through speech markers
- Apply the stimulus/response pattern for clarity
- Use three types of tags to show goals motivations and conflict
- Format and punctuate dialogue properly.
Participants will also receive a 13-page handout. Those who participate in the February 2020 session are invited to submit the first 5,000 words of your work in progress by March 1 for critique. Joni will apply the lesson content to your work and email it back to you.
After working decades in journalism, Joni M. Fisher turned to crime. Her Compass Crimes series has garnered attention in Publisher’s Weekly and earned recognition in the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Royal Palm Literary Awards, the TopShelf Book Award, and others. She serves on the Arts and Humanities Advisory Board for Southeastern University and is a member of the Florida Writers Association and Sisters in Crime. An instrument-rated private pilot, she’s also a reporter for General Aviation News. For more information, see jonimfisher.com.
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When: Saturday, March 7, 2020, 11:00 AM ET
Fee: $10 FWA members | $20 Non-members
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