Killer Instinct - April

Title: Let's Talk Dialogue

Instructor: Stephen D. Rogers

Class Description: Whether your protagonist is trading barbs with a love interest or with a serial killer, dialogue is often what your readers remember. Learn how to use dialogue to develop your characters, develop your storyline, and develop your fan base.
By taking this course, you'll learn how to:

  • Understand what dialogue is and isn't
  • Master the three types of dialogue
  • Establish character, setting, and plot
  • Braid communication and miscommunication
  • Craft dialogue that sizzles
  • Lie (not that you ever would)
  • Talk the talk
  • Say what needs to be said

Instructor Bio: Derringer winner Stephen D. Rogers is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Private Eye Writers of America, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society. He judged the Daphne du Maurier (published category) for four years and has written columns and articles for Dabbling Mum, Writer's Digest, and Writing World. Over five hundred of his stories and poems have appeared in more than two hundred publications, and still the police have yet to come knocking at his door. Except at work, where he's the police department computer tech.
stephenrogers.com

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