Using Theater Strategies

to Improve Your Novel

with

Photo credit Gerry O'Brien

Diana Pho

Hugo Award-nominated fiction editor

Monthly meeting, 1-hour Zoom presentation
(includes Q&A)

Saturday, June 20, 2020

1 p.m. PDT

Looking toward the stage for inspiration, you can use playwriting techniques to make your novel more dynamic and engaging.

Write action-forward dialogue to flesh out character motivation

Conceptualize characterization through movement
Plot using traditional and innovative theater structures
Innovate your scene writing by thinking in “beats”
Improve upon thematic elements through visual cues

Diana M. Pho is a Hugo Award-nominated fiction editor, scholar, and playwright, with thirteen years experience in traditional, Big Five publishing, including Tor Books and Tor.com Publishing. She has a double B.A. in English and Russian Literature from Mount Holyoke College and a Master’s in Performance Studies from NYU. See her website at www.dianampho.com.

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