Jul
10
7:00pm
What You Say Reveals Who You Are: a workshop on dialogue
By TPL Programs
TPL’s Summer 2021 Writer in Residence is Kate Cayley. Learn more about TPL’s Writer in Residence program.
What we say and how we say it reveals everything about ourselves, our fears and desires, our contexts and experiences. Fiction allows for spare dialogue (some writers barely use it at all), yet dialogue presents an opportunity to concisely and devastatingly expose the truth of relationships between characters. Dialogue is a mine-field: one false step can be deadly, one instance where the character sounds too much like the author, or speaks in blandly utilitarian phrases only to provide exposition or advance the plot. A workshop in how to write dialogue that is true to the voice of each person, that tells a story, and that reveals a character’s history. This workshop will involve a number of practical exercises in which participants are given a situation and asked to write dialogue that explores it.
Participants will be expected to write as part of the workshop, and their writing will be emailed to the administrator and posted anonymously for feedback from the writer in residence.
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Toronto Public Library is committed to accessibility. Please call or email us if you are Deaf or have a disability and would like to request accommodation to participate in this program. Please let us know as far in advance as possible and we will do our best to meet your request. At least three weeks' notice is preferred. Phone 416-393-7099 or email [email protected].
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