Elements of Fiction: Dialogue

Having trouble getting your dialogue to sparkle? In this workshop, you will see that writing realistic-sounding dialogue has little to do with how people actually speak. You?ll learn how to use dialogue to advance the plot and reveal character, and we?ll cover the effective use of tags, oblique dialogue, and subtext. In addition, we?ll discuss how to incorporate actions within conversations to make written scenes spring to life. Don?t let one of the most important building blocks of fiction fall flat!