Tuesday, April 28th, 4:00-5:30 PT/7:00-8:30 ET (Zoom)
Recording Included
$97 USD. Free with Labyrinth Membership
Most fiction writers carry an intuitive sense of how dialogue works, shaped by years of reading stories and listening to the rhythms of real conversation. But what if you could bring that instinct even more fully onto the page? How do you create moments where something true is at stake—where connection, tension, or vulnerability is actually happening, not just being talked about?
In this workshop, we’ll approach dialogue through the full landscape of a scene—character action, sensory detail, setting, interior monologue, and character detail—so that your characters’ words are rooted in something deeper. Rather than focusing on dialogue in isolation, we’ll explore how it emerges from a fully inhabited moment.
You’ll be invited to:
- Drop more fully into a scene, grounding your characters in time, space, and body
- Explore how internal experience shapes what is (and isn’t) said
- Use action, setting, and sensory detail to support emotional truth
- Create interactions that carry subtext, tension, and genuine connection
This isn’t about learning new rules—it’s about entering the scene in a different way. Many of these elements will already be familiar to you. The shift is in how you bring them together, allowing your writing to move from constructed to lived-in.
Through guided exercises and close attention to the elements of scene, you’ll have the opportunity to experiment, discover, and deepen your own approach to writing dialogue that feels authentic, specific, and alive.
You’ll leave with new ways to approach dialogue in your current work—and practical tools you can return to whenever a scene feels flat, forced, or disconnected.