Fall Craft Intensive: Jinwoo Chong
Workshops
$75.00
Description
Editor's Note
Dialogue: Tension & Movement with Jinwoo Chong
Sunday, December 14
12 PM – 3 PM PST/ 3 PM – 6 PM EST
Online
This course will examine the effect that dialogue in all forms and methods—narratively, temporally, syntactically—manipulates both tension and movement within a scene. We’ll begin by laying some basic framework to identify good and effective dialogue’s myriad characteristics: snap, weight, urgency, and inertia. We’ll diagnose and judge the effectiveness of innovative and/or unusual examples of contemporary dialogue (Charles Yu, Rebecca Makkai, Rachel Khong, Percival Everett, Sally Rooney) as well as classics, choice genre, and theater (Dickens, Tan, Hemingway, Patterson, Picoult, Steel, Margulies, Ijames, Escola, Jacobs-Jenkins).
Our interest, moving into generative exercises based on prompts that establish a number of speakers, a key plot point, a prescribed ‘turn’ that must occur within the first 100 words, etc., will be to examine the various layers of conversation taking place at any given time within a scene involving dialogue. We’ll attempt to parse the literal from the symbolic, the agenda of one speaker from the agenda of the other, and examine points in which these layers converge, diverge, or interfere with one another to affect the movement of the scene.
Scholarship
We have one scholarship available for this intensive. Scholarships are conducted through a lottery. If you are interested in submitting your name, please fill out this form.
BIO: Jinwoo Chong is the author of the novels I Leave It Up to You and Flux. His short fiction has been published in The Southern Review, Guernica, and Chicago Quarterly Review. He lives in New Jersey.