Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Climactic Dialogue for the Climactic Story Teller: A Writing Workshop with Diana Kirk
Dialogue is the difference between grey skies and perwinkle horizons. It’s the color, the peak, the cherry on the top of a banana split. It’s an accent to any story and it brings you from one of narration only to a multi-faceted quilt of characters and nuances that can only be found when characters speak outloud. Learn how to write using dialogue to tell your story or fold into an existing one. Find people’s voices, find your own.
In this four hour workshop, we’ll tell stories from our own lives and practice writing these into small vignettes or polaroids of dialogue leading to a climactic conclusion. When you leave, you’ll have the tools and confidence necessary to write other people’s words, to write your own words…with intent.
Diana Kirk is a liar, a hussy, a boss lady and a downright dirty dawg. Which means she’s a helluva writer. The author of Licking Flames: Tales of a Half-Assed Hussy and Nasty! has been published in Progessive magazine, Nailed, Psychology of It and has appeared on NPR. Her stories, her vignettes and her ramblings can be found all over social media and most nights at her 92 year old bar called Workers Tavern in Astoria, Oregon.
COST: $30 plus $13 material fee (includes book). Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.
BRING: Please bring paper and pen/pencil or other favorite writing method. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Coffee and tea provided.
This workshop is for students age 18 and up. Perfect for beginners. Perfect for essay writers. Novel writers. Whomever.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.