Workshop: Dialogue that Dazzles: Watch Your Story Jump Off the Page
Instructor: Lori Wilde
Dates: February 4th - 18th, 2008
Cost: $10 for WRW members, $20 for nonmembers
(All registrants must provide their RWA membership #.)
See how to register via PayPal below
Dialogue that dazzles is about creating the most exciting, compelling conversations you’ve ever written. Stellar dialogue can make you story leap to life the way nothing else can. If you’ve gotten comments from editors and agents that your dialogue is trite or stilted or dull, we’ve got the cure for you.
This workshop is designed to teach you how to write fresh, natural dialogue that dazzles. You’ll learn new techniques for rewriting any lines of dialogue and improving them spectacularly. You’ll uncover secrets of incorporating these methods into your writing style. Learn how to make your dialogue stand out and dramatically increase your chances of selling your book!
Topics covered include:
1. What is great dialogue?
2. Using dialogue to breathe life into your characters
3. Creating expressive language
4. People rarely say what they mean--subtext
5. Subtext part 2
6. Structuring dialogue to match real conversations
7. Dusting your book with dazzling dialogue
8. And much more
Instructor Bio:
Lori Wilde has written forty-one novels for three major New York Publishing houses. She holds a bachelors degree in nursing from Texas Christian University and a certificate in forensics. She volunteers as a sexual assault first responder for Freedom House, a shelter for battered women.
Recently, she received a two book contract from Warner books based solely on a 25 word ‘high concept’ pitch. When the sale—along with the pitch—was announced on Publisher’s Marketplace, she was approached by eight film production companies—including Paramount and Warner Brothers—interested in optioning her completed novel for a movie. She is an instructor for a company who provides online community education to over 1500 colleges and universities.
Lori is a past RITA finalist and has four times been nominated for Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award. She’s won the Colorado Award of Excellence, the Wisconsin Write Touch Award, The Lories, The More Than Maggie, the Golden Quill and The BestBooks of 2006 Book Award.
Her books have been translated into 22 languages and excerpted in Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Complete Woman and Quick and Simple magazines. She’s appeared numerous times on the Walden’s book list and Ingram’s Top 50. She lives in Texas with her husband, Bill.
Some of Lori’s titles include:
ONCE SMITTEN, TWICE SHY 01/08
MY SECRET LIFE 09/07
THERE GOES THE BRIDE 3/07 Warner Books
REAL MEN DO IT BETTER 02/07 Anthology with St. Martin’s Press
SOME LIKE IT HOT 11/06 Harlequin Special Release
DESTINY’S HAND 06/06 Harlequin Blaze
YOU ONLY LOVE TWICE 03/06 Warner Books
ANGELS AND OUTLAWS 01/06 Harlequin Blaze
HOW TO REGISTER FOR AN ONLINE WORKSHOP WITH WRW:
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