An update from our seventy-third Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 5 Today’s workshop called for the writers to pull from their own bookshelves and study the ins and outs of literary dialogue. The participants were asked to share out especially inspiring scenes of dialogue from their favorite books and […]
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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #44: Writing Dialogue
An update from our forty-forth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, October 8, plus some of the output published below This week’s workshop, Conner began with the caveat that these tools for writing dialogue, while strict, are just his opinion, and that we are free to write dialogue […]
How Stories Work: Writing Workshop #29: Writing Dialogue
An update from the twenty-ninth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday February 26, plus some of the output published below To begin today’s workshop, Conner showed us the opening sequence from the 2001 film adaptation of Waiting for Godot, asking that we notice what made the dialogue good—specifically to […]
