2015 Willamette Writers Conference

Nervous about writing fight scenes? Struggle with adding visual references to dialogue? Learn how to use theatrical techniques to turn dialogue into drama. Dramatic Dialogue is an active ninety-minute writing workshop that helps prose writers learn to choreograph dialogue the same way a director would choreograph a scene in a play. Participants will practice incorporating setting, action, and emotion within a group activity and an individual written dialogue. They will use setting and props within the scene to tell the story of the dialogue, add actions that build the excitement of the scene and support the dialogue, and incorporate emotional highs and lows as well as character relationships within dialogue.