Instructor: Benjamin Roesch (Fiction, January 2016)

Course Description:

We talk to other people all the time. Speech is at the center of our lives. Which begs the question: why is writing dialogue in fiction SO hard? And why does it so often fall flat or feel fake?

In this 2-hour, interactive workshop, we’ll dig into what makes dialogue tick. We’ll drink from the keg of dialogue masters like Ernest Hemingway and Judy Blume who can help us mere mortals improve our craft. Participants should come ready to write, think, discover, and share. When it’s over, you’ll have some new tools and a boosted sense of confidence so you can get back to your stories and make your dialogue really…talk.