Do not write dialogue and then expect your character to arise from it.
First work on your character. Know him or her well. Know how he or she is feeling. Authentically feel what he or she is feeling.
As soon as you authentically feel what your character is feeling, dialogue will be spouted forth naturally, copiously, and uncontrollably from that character's mouth, including his/her particular frames of reference, associations, vocabulary, idioms and idiosyncracies of speech, verbal nuances, expressions, and an amazing power of language that is totally unlike your own.
Tony Perez's Workshop in Creative Writing, Creative Drawing, and Creative Drama
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Writing from The Heart
Writing from The Heart
"Writing from The Heart" is a workshop on creative writing, creative drawing, and creative drama.
There are three available versions of this workshop: one for beginners on the secondary, tertiary, and graduate levels, and another for practitioners.
A third version of this workshop is designed as an outreach program to disadvantaged and underserved audiences such as the disabled, the poor and the marginalized, victims of human trafficking, battered women and abused children, drug rehabilitation center residents, child combatants, children in conflict with the law, prisoners, and gang leaders. This third version incorporates creativity and problem awareness, conflict resolution, crisis intervention, trauma therapy, and peacemaking.
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