We talk to other people all the time. Speech is at the center of our lives. Which begs the question: why is writing dialogue in fiction SO hard? And why does it so often fall flat or feel fake?
In this 2-hour, interactive workshop, we’ll dig into what makes dialogue tick. We’ll drink from the keg of dialogue masters like Ernest Hemingway and Judy Blume who can help us mere mortals improve our craft. Participants should come ready to write, think, discover, and share. When it’s over, you’ll have some new tools and a boosted sense of confidence so you can get back to your stories and make your dialogue really…talk.
BENJAMIN ROESCH’s debut novel, Blowin’ My Mind Like a Summer Breeze, won the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Young Adult Fiction. He is also author of the middle grade novel Felix and Squeak and the Ghost Who Forgot Everything. He has an MFA from Lesley University and is a writer, musician, teacher, podcaster, and award-winning essayist. For twelve glorious, exhausting years, he was a high school English teacher, and is now a full-time writer based in Burlington, where he lives with his family. Oh, and his name is pronounced “Rush,” like the band from Canada.