Dialogue
Location
Benerd School of Education, Room 117
Start Date
18-5-2019 9:00 AM
End Date
18-5-2019 10:15 AM
Description
You’re writing (or reading) about interactions between people. Make it real. As a writer you want to pull the reader in and give them something that they understand, an emotion they’ve felt, a situation they’ve been in. What you don’t want to do is pull the reader out of the story. Any time he or she will stop reading and ask themselves some version of “Huh?” the chances decrease that they’ll finish your book. And the chances increase that they won’t recommend you to as friend, no matter how compelling the plot or characters.
Dialogue
Benerd School of Education, Room 117
You’re writing (or reading) about interactions between people. Make it real. As a writer you want to pull the reader in and give them something that they understand, an emotion they’ve felt, a situation they’ve been in. What you don’t want to do is pull the reader out of the story. Any time he or she will stop reading and ask themselves some version of “Huh?” the chances decrease that they’ll finish your book. And the chances increase that they won’t recommend you to as friend, no matter how compelling the plot or characters.
Comments
Michele Drier was born in Santa Cruz and is a fifth generation Californian. During her career in journalism—as a reporter and editor at daily newspapers—she won awards for producing investigative series. She is the president of Capitol Crimes, the Sacramento chapter of Sisters in Crime, and co-chair of Bouchercon 2020. Her Amy Hobbes Newspaper Mysteries are Edited for Death, (called “Riveting and much recommended” by the Midwest Book Review), Labeled for Death and Delta for Death, and a stand-alone thriller, Ashes of Memories, published in 2017. Her paranormal romance series, The Kandesky Vampire Chronicles, has consistently won awards and was the best paranormal vampire series of 2014 from the Paranormal Romance Guild. The series is SNAP: The World Unfolds, SNAP: New Talent, Plague: A Love Story, Danube: A Tale of Murder, SNAP: Love for Blood, SNAP: Happily Ever After?, SNAP: White Nights, SNAP: All That Jazz, and SNAP: I, Vampire. Visit her facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/AuthorMicheleDrier, her Amazon author page, http://www.amazon.com/Michele-Drier/e/B005D2YC8G/ or her website, www.micheledrier.com.