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 Self Promotion: you are a writer. Download the handout for this meeting, which includes a few announcements, 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 February 11th, prepared to discuss.
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PREVIOUS MEETING: January 14
Our Theme for this meeting was Character Development, Dialogue and Subtext.
Our challenge: Was to use the same two characters from two previous Challenges. You know their personalities, their personal history, and their backstories. Now imagine a relationship to one another? Create a conflict between them. These two characters are lost. They get into an argument about being lost that eventually reveals the true source of their conflict with one another. At least four lines of their dialogue leading up to the revelation of the true nature of their conflict should contain subtext. Subtext makes the characters more interesting because it allows us to ‘read between the lines.’
The Art of Listening by Shirley Bigelow DeKelver. The two people in this conversation, dialogue with subtext, are Annie McGee and Ophelia Barnes
Dialogue Exercise with subtext between Two Characters by Ernie Briginshaw.
Dialogue with Subtext, titled, Looking for Lost Sheep by Joyce Adrian Sotski.
Dialogue with Subtext by Dulcie Enns. The two people in this conversation are Bob Cunningham and Timmy.