Course Description for

Dialogue Writing

with Patrika Vaughn

Registration Fee and Course Length

Prerequisites

Standard course: $180 / 6 weeks. Click here to register.

Extended schedule: $224 / 12 weeks. Click here to register.
Extended course is designed for busy people and gives you two weeks to do each lesson but contains NO additional material.

No prerequisites.

Course Contacts

Course Description

Dialogue is what makes your writing - fiction or non fiction - come alive for readers. Learn how to make dialogue work for you- to develop character, advance your plot, impart information, show conflict or tension, set the mood, and make readers part of the action.

Week 1: The tasks of dialogue. Using dialogue to advance your plot.

Week 2: Develop and reveal your characters through believable dialogue.

Week 3: Using dialogue to show conflict and/or tension.

Week 4: Imparting information to readers through dialogue. When to and when not to use dialogue.

Week 5: Set the mood for your scene with dialogue. Using rhythm, word choice, word order and unusual usages to create the mood.

Week 6: Make readers part of the action. Get readers inside your story, where they can care about your characters.

Patrika Vaughn has served as a literary agent, a professional writer, ghostwriter, publisher and teacher for 25 years.

Her works have appeared in more than 100 national journals and magazines and she is listed in The International Authors and Writers Who's Who. Her books, tapes and seminars have gained audiences from Florida to Finland. Awards include: Order of Excellence, Who's Who in the 21st Century, Also listed in Outstanding People of the 21st Century.

She is the world's leading Author's Advocate(TM), dedicated to showing today's writers how to become successful in today's changing publishing climate.