Beginning Date: Open enrollment
Duration: 12 weeks
Tuition: $295

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Workshop Summary

This workshop is about developing dialogue as a reflection of character, conflict development and moving the story forward. Writing realistic dialogue, using regional dialect, the use of attribution, and sources of authentic idiom.

Throughout this workshop and others in the writing program, we ask that you work with characters and stories from your own writing. We will examine famous examples and non-examples from other authors, but your development as a writer will come through the development of your own materials.

Workshop Topics

What Dialogue Is
The Functions of Dialogue
Types of Dialogue
Compression
Dialogue & Characters
Dialogue and Description
Dialogue Techniques
Dialogue & the Sense of Human Nature
Dialect Or Not
Reading Dialogue Aloud
Body Language & Dialogue
Four Letter Words
Nuts & Bolts
Dialogue Do's and Don'ts

Required Reading

Escaping into the Open : The Art of Writing True by Elizabeth Berg

A Writer's Tool Kit by Carroll Dale Short

Stein on Writing by Sol Stein

Writing Dialogue by Tom Chiarella

Required Viewing

Cookie's Fortune
Information about the movie Cookie's Fortune can be found on the Internet Movie Database website at http://indie.imdb.com/Title?0126250

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