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Wordsowers meets at the Rockbrook Garden Café at 108thand Center the first Thursday of each month. Some of our group come to eat at 6 p.m. We support the café and catch up on news. The meeting starts at 7 p.m.
April 5th I’ll be talking about—well if you read any of the posts, you know the topic. Dialogue.
Please come. Bring a friend. If you don’t have time to write anything before April 5th meeting, come anyway.
See you there, Kat
What if your characters aren’t characters at all—after all, we all know “Veggie Tales,” where vegetables talk. The next time you open a closet listen to what your shoes are saying to you. Or maybe it’s the coat you haven’t worn since last season. Possibly something speaks from the far reaches of your closet. Does your item have a name? Can the dialogue show age, race or gender?
And I’m still writing non-fiction, but the exercise reminds me of the puppet scripts I wrote for years ago. Everything from a tennis racket to a mop carried on vivid conversations and taught scripture, too.

Still lionhearted, Kat

Have you ever used dialogue to reveal a secret—the internal dialogue of one person in a room with several others? How do you keep the reader in tune with the other characters in the room while exposing your hidden past?

Try it. Write. Don’t edit. Structure two or three paragraphs—maybe they’ll even trigger a best seller.

Kat, Still Lionhearted

When you are writing age-related dialogue, how do you show the generational differences? Today someone asked a group, “Do you say come to supper or do you say come to dinner?”

For the next few days listen to those around you. Eavesdrop. What dialogue is distinctly mother, teen or grandmother related?

Bring your ideas to the next WordSowers meeting April 5th.

Still Lionhearted, Kat

On April 5th Word Sowers will meet at the Rockbrook Garden Café—108th and Center Street. The topic for the evening: Dialogue.

Writer’s Digest Books (WDB) has a number of books on how to improve your writing expertise. In April I’ll present my take on, “Dialogue: Techniques and exercises for crafting effective dialogue” by Gloria Kempton. This WDB is filled with writing exercises—they challenge me, especially since my focus in non-fiction.

Over the years I’ve learned to use dialogue in my story telling—to bring life to my memoirs, the lessons I’ve learned about writing and my caregiving journey. What about you?

Write 250 words about a family member, a teacher or possibly a pastor. With dialogue, help us understand the scene—tense or pleasant. Don’t bother to edit, bring your rough draft to Word Sowers next month.

Kat, Still Lionhearted