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Let Your Characters Do the Talking — An RMFW Online Class

October 15, 2013 By: Patricia

Let Your Characters Do the Talking

Presented by Sharon Mignerey
2 Week Course
Start Date: Monday, October 21
End Date: Sunday, November 3

$25 Members – $30 Non-Member

To register, go to the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers website here.

The verbal exchanges our hero/heroine has with other characters is usually where a story comes alive. Great dialog infuses characters with life as little else does, and poor dialog reduces them to caricatures. As with other aspects of writing, there’s a craft to dialog that can be learned and that can take talent to the next level.

This online workshop includes:

The basics, punctuation and format.
Making your character’ s dialog personal
Using dialog to reveal . and conceal . character
Dialog as it propels a plot forward
Finding the subtext
Something important to say . or simple chitchat

Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers has a great lineup of online and local classes coming soon. For more information on those scheduled so far, visit the RMFW website and look for the Events page.

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Comments

  1. LD Masterson says

    October 15, 2013 at 6:43 pm

    Thanks for the info.

  2. Margot Kinberg says

    October 15, 2013 at 11:55 am

    Good to know. Thanks, Pat.

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I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. My most recent release, In Defense of Delia (Five Star/Cengage, November 2022), is available in hardcover and will soon be available in ebook and trade paperback. Read More…

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