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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