Tonight’s the night for the Dialog Challenge
Have ready for tonight’s meeting:
April’s writing challenge is an dialog exercise.
The concept is to write a scene with characters exchanging dialog, but WITHOUT dialog tags or any description.
Just the dialog itself. (In other words, just what is inside the quotes! )
Sherry and I got the idea from the Writing Excuses podcast.
There were two episodes where they did this exercise. The links are here
http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/12/27/writing-excuses-5-17-dialog-exercises/
http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/01/16/writing-excuses-5-20-more-dialog-exercises/
It should be two pages, double space. (roughly 350 words)
I wouldn’t worry about trying to complete the scene. The exercise is meant to work on dialog. Focus on creating the scene and characterization through the dialog.
