“The best dialog is more than a conversation between two characters. It rings true to the world of the story, deepens character and furthers plot,” says R. Dean Johnson, director of the Bluegrass Writers Studio MFA program and professor at Eastern Kentucky University.
On April 26, Johnson will present an interactive Zoom presentation on how to write dialog that breaks through chatty trivialities and adds authenticity and depth to characters’ conversations. In this talk, participants will consider examples of good and bad dialog and then try their hand at making some surprisingly bad dialog from a classic cinema scene better, using skills learned from the presentation.
R. Dean Johnson grew up in Southern California and is the author of Californium, a coming-of-age novel set in the 1980s in Southern California where Johnson grew up. Johnson has also published a story collection, Delicate Men, and his essays and stories have appeared in national literary journals, most recently Baltimore Review, Cimarron Review and Permafrost.
Fremont Area Writers is one of 21 branches of the California Writers Club. It meets on Zoom from 2pm to 4pm on the fourth Saturday of each month. All meetings are free and open to the public. Participants do not need to live in Fremont to attend.
More information is available at cwc-fremontareawriters.org. Those interested in attending can request the Zoom link from Scott Davidson at sc**************@***oo.com.
Dialog workshop
Saturday, April 26
2–4pm
Request the Zoom link from Scott Davidson
