Dialogue, Dialogue, Dialogue: A Fiction Craft Class with Willy VlautinHow I fell in love with novels is dialogue. As a kid I read all my mom’s John D. MacDonald and John le Carré thrillers and found myself constantly skipping to the dialogue sections. Dialogue was where the drama hid, where the characters sparred, romanced, deceived, and despaired. The more I studied it the more I learned that every writer approached dialogue differently. There was no right or wrong way. The trick was to find your own way, your own style. We’ll look at dialogue masters like Roddy Doyle and Elmore Leonard and we’ll also examine the power of dialogue in film. We’ll discuss a handful of dos and don’ts, and of course we’ll have a dialogue writing prompt at the end, where time permitting, we’ll share what we’ve written.
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