Memoir Techniques: Writing Great Dialogue
Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
Online
Online Open to all levels
Open to all levels 1 Session
1 Session In this class, we'll read examples from various memoirs, and study different techniques for writing dialogue and what to do when we can't remember conversations word for word. We'll discuss the purpose of dialogue, when and when not to use it, and spend time writing and revising conversations from our own works in progress.
Registration dates:
June 5: Scholarship Donation Day (Learn more.)
June 6: Member registration opens
June 13: General registration opens
Nicole Hardy
Nicole Hardy is the author of the memoir Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin and the poetry collections This Blonde and Mud Flap Girl's XX Guide to Facial Profiling — a chapbook of pop-culture inspired sonnets.
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