How to Craft Dynamic Dialogue

Poor use of dialogue in your manuscript can turn off your reader fast. It needs to ring true, or your reader will often set your book down. Learn how to wield dialogue to strengthen your voice and that of your characters.

Using examples from novels and film, we’ll cover the ways dialogue can:

• Convey information and avoid the need for info dumps (without being obvious about it)
• Move the plot forward
• Create memorable characters
• Show relationships between the characters
• Convey mood and emotions and set the pace

We will also cover basic conventions for writing dialogue and discuss the nuances that make this subject more than a list of do’s and don’t’s.

Speaker Bio:

Jennifer Delamere's novels have won many accolades, including Romance Writers of America RITA® award finalist, a starred review from Publishers Weekly, the Georgia Romance Writers Maggie Award for Excellence, and Virginia Romance Writers HOLT Medallion finalist. She loves reading classics and histories, which she mines for the vivid details to bring to life the people and places in her books. She's currently working on a series set on transatlantic ocean liners in the 1920s.