Online: 10 Practical Tips for Writing Powerful Dialogue

This class is held online using Zoom. Make sure we have your current email so we can send you the Zoom link before the class starts. You’ll also get PDF handouts during the session.

Want to make your characters sound more real and interesting? In this fun and fast-moving class, you’ll learn easy ways to improve the conversations in your story or script. You’ll find out how to:

• Make dialogue sound natural and exciting
• Use simple tags like “he said” or “she asked”
• Give each character a unique voice
• Show what’s happening through dialogue instead of long descriptions
• Avoid long blocks of boring conversation
• Keep it real—but not dull

Your instructor, LeeAnne Krusemark, is a former news reporter and now works as a writer, editor, and college professor. She teaches publishing classes across the country, including at Harvard’s adult education program.