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Ka'Dia Dhatnubia

Make Your Characters Speak: How to Craft Dynamic Dialogue | 1-Day Online Seminar

$75.00

Dialogue is the heartbeat of a great story—it helps characters come alive, delivers information, reveals backgrounds, relationships, and motivations. But crafting authentic dialogue can often feel like walking a tightrope between realistic and caricature, authentic and info-dumpy. Striking that balance takes practice and a few strategies.

In the end, it's about getting to a space where the characters speak for themselves and you are simply transcribing the conversation.

In Make Your Characters Speak: How to Craft Dynamic Dialogue, you'll learn how to transform your characters' conversations into compelling, natural, and unforgettable exchanges. Drawing inspiration from everyday life, this workshop will guide you in channeling those sparks into dialogue that connects with readers. You'll walk away with a set of tools and techniques to approach even the toughest dialogue with curiosity and excitement.

Open to beginner writers.

1 class session
Saturday, January 17
12p-2p ET
9a-11a PT
11a-1p CT

All class meetings will be held via Zoom. For more information on how to download or use Zoom, please click here. Please note: At this time, to protect the confidentiality of the space and sharing of students' work, classes are not recorded.

    Course Takeaways

    • Students only need to bring a sense of curiosity. If they have a manuscript and/or original characters, that would be a plus but it's not a requirement. The same exercises can be done with characters from pre-existing media as a way to practice before applying the skills to their own creations.

    We offer full refunds for cancellation with written notice up until 7 days before your class start date. From 6 days to more than 24 hours before class begins, we offer a 25% refund. If you drop a class less than 24 hours before the class begins or after it has started, you are ineligible for a refund.

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    Meet Your Instructor

    Ka'Dia Dhatnubia

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    With a BFA in Writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Ka'Dia Dhatnubia has grown roots in the South as a Midwest transplant. She has published poetry with Torch Literary Arts and Womanly Magazine, personal essay with Black Femme Collective, and features for Savannah Morning News and Savannah Magazine. For three years, she taught after school creative writing and poetry workshops for middle and high school students.