The Writers’ Nook is a place where we, as a group, can provide a safe and positive environment in which to encourage one another and hone our own writing skills.
Our Theme for this meeting is Character Development, Dialogue and Subtext. Download the handout for this meeting, which includes examples provided at the meeting as well as the next Challenge. Please send me a pdf copy of your submission as soon as you can so I can post it. We need to give our members an opportunity to read it before they come to the following meeting, on January 28th, prepared to discuss.
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PREVIOUS MEETINGS: December 10th and November 26th
December 10th: Christmas Party
November 26th: Our Theme was Characters Development using Dialogue.
Our challenge: Most recently, we have twice been given the challenges of creating a character, complete with physical and non-physical characteristics. We’ve also written their backstories. Since we now know these two characters so well, we know what they will do in any given situation. Our challenge is to put them into a situation and write a dialogue scene between the two of them. Be sure that the dialogue helps us, the readers, understand their character — aka character development in the mind of the reader. (If you haven’t already created two different characters, please do so before you continue.)
Our Responses:
The Adventures of Rambo — The Christmas Dog by Hal Dyck. This was sent to us in December; feedback is encouraged.
Dialogue Exercise between Two Characters by Ernie Briginshaw.
Homework Exercise by Hal Dyck.
The Challenge by Joyce Adrian Sotski.
Conversation Between Two Characters by Shirley Bigelow DeKelver. The two people in the conversation are Annie McGee and Ophelia Barnes