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Monthly Meeting, June 20 – Theater Techniques in Novel Writing

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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