THE FOUR ASPECTS OF DIALOGUE
COMING ON ZOOM on August 3, 2024 AT 1:00 PM
AND
August 10, 2024 AT 1:00 PM
90 MINUTE PRESENTATION PLUS Q&A
ALL FOR $50 PER PERSON, PER PRESENTATION
The August 90 minute presentation will focus on the four powerful elements plus two other forms of dialogue from best selling novels to demonstrate how authors may get the most out of their story telling. Handouts will be forwarded to students prior to class to follow along with during class.
The August 90 minute presentation will focus on attribution, mechanics of punctuation, and how to avoid common Dialogue rendering mistakes many authors make. Handouts will be forwarded to students prior to class to follow along with during class.
DRAMATIC WRITING FOR POWERFUL SCENES
Coming again in 2024
90 minute presentation includes Q&A afterward
How does this apply to my writing?
If we stop to think about it, as writers we tend to have an internal movie going on in our head when we’re writing. As director, screenwriter, and character all wrapped up into one, we are always making choices in an attempt to let our perfect scene play out on the page.
But WHAT choices are we making, and why?
What points of view are we, as authors and mind-movie directors, choosing? What tone and pace are we selecting for the scene? What would be the alternative? How much of that perfect envisioned scene in our imagination is making it to the page?
In "Breaking Down the Dramatic Scene", we are prodded to think about our own work by examining the directors, actors, and script writer's work from notable movies in visual form.
We ask ourselves, are we hitting the right notes with our character’s body language (or lack thereof)? Are we delving deep enough into our character’s physical and emotional behaviors? What actions, expressions, atmospherics, settings or symbolic items are our characters reacting to that we may be missing when we’re transferring them from our "mind movie" to the tension-filled moments landing on the page?
In this one hour zoom presentation, Ron and Millisa will guide the audience's participation in discussing these questions. Using featured clips to examine choices made for the big screen, we discuss why directors, actors, and screenwriters may have made those choices and how we can use this to improve our writing. The goal is to reach a fresh perspective before we return to our keyboards and direct our characters once again.
INTRODUCING OUR CHARACTERS STARTS AT THE FIRST DRAFT
Coming in 2024
90 minute presentation includes Q&A
Our characters, like people you meet in all walks of life, reveal themselves little by little from page one onward. In this presentation, the writer will explore how accomplished best selling authors choose to reveal their heroes and heroines in the first few pages to the reader, using examples from critically acclaimed novels with in-depth student participation. In addition the presentation will include examples of what our characters look at or pay attention to in a scene, and why these observations matter.
POINT OF VIEW - IT MATTERS
Coming November 2nd, 2024
90 minute presentation includes Q&A
In this 90 minute presentation the writer will explore the power and deficiencies within each POV perspective by contrasting them against each other with examples from cherished novels. The student in this presentation will discover there is many ways to tell the story beyond just the four basic POVs. Which one is right for you and your story? Come and explore for yourself!
$50 PER STUDENT (INCLUDES MATERIALS)