Mastering Advanced Dialogue Techniques

Dialogue is key to developing the views, attitudes, and flaws of your characters. In this carefully curated bundle of 12 digital products, you’ll learn the key elements that make dialogue engaging for the audience, techniques to create subtext in your script, the crucial difference between active and passive dialogue, how to create a lead that major actors will want to play, and much more!

Writing effective dialogue is such an important element of every story in any genre. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to take yours to the next level!

Dialogue Writing Demystified (OnDemand Video) In this video, you’ll study effective dialogue from a wide variety of genres. Dialogue is also important from a marketing point of view. Great dialogue means creating fun roles that actors will fight over. Great dialogue will make your characters leap off the page and come to life. Watch this how-to video with Karl Iglesias and improve your dialogue today! ($29.99 value)

Master Aaron Sorkin's Dialogue and Scene Techniques (OnDemand Webinar) Join UCLA instructor and bestselling author Karl Iglesias in this OnDemand Webinar as he deconstructs Aaron Sorkin’s scenes and dialogue, and shows you how you can skillfully apply his dialogue techniques to spice up your dialogue. ($39.99 value)

Psychology of Subtext: The Meaning Behind The Words (OnDemand Video) Great dialogue is off-the-nose—it illuminates what the characters are thinking without saying it. This is “subtext.” This how-to video presented by Karl Iglesias will show you the time tested tools that add necessary subtext to your characters voices. ($29.99 value)

How to Write Sparkling Dialogue: Advanced Techniques to Make Your Script Shine (OnDemand Webinar) In this OnDemand webinar Karl Iglesias showcases techniques designed to improve the dialogue in your current project, how to develop a distinct voice for each character, how to weave in exposition without losing the reader's interest, and how to add depth, emotion, and meaning through subtext. ($39.99 value) 

7 Common Blunders Screenwriters Make (and How to Avoid Them) (OnDemand Webinar) Gain a competitive edge by overcoming the mistakes that developing writers commonly make. This is not your typical presentation on the overall structure, paradigms, and other macro issues; this OnDemand webinar focuses on the specifics of writing and revising a screenplay gleaned from two decades of reading and evaluating screenplays. ($39.99 Value)

The Sweet 16! The Only Tool You'll Ever Use Again To Create Characters (OnDemand Webinar) In this OnDemand webinar, Jennifer Dornbush shares 16 short and sweet tools to create enduring, popular, living, and breathing characters. The Sweet 16 is an easily-repeatable method that guarantees you will have a credible, memorable, and actionable character! ($39.99 value)

Writing The Phone Call (OnDemand Webinar) Real life is not drama, and we screenwriters need to make the most dramatic choices for our characters possible. The danger in using phone calls in film as much as we conduct them in reality is that you may be minimizing the drama. A great telephone scene will stand out for time to come. Watch this how-to video with Crickett Rumley and improve your skills today!($29.99 value) 

The Character-Driven Drama: Write Parts Actors Love (OnDemand Webinar) High concept and intriguing plot alone are useless without organic, fascinating characters that A-list actors want to play, and top directors want to direct! Learn how to build bold, flawed, truly memorable protagonists that every director, actor, and studio wants, and then construct your plot from those characters' needs. ($39.99 value)

Developing Strong Dialogue in Your Screenplay (OnDemand Webinar) In this OnDemand webinar, you will learn how to use visual imagery in your dialogue, and understand how sub-text in dialogue makes scenes come alive. Instructor Glenn M. Benest is an award winning screenwriter and one of Los Angeles’ most popular instructors of screenwriting workshops. ($39.99 value)

SHOWSTOPPER: Writing the Scene That Helps Sell Your Script (OnDemand Webinar) Remember that scene that everyone talks about and can't wait to tell their friends? It's called the showstopper, and sums up your script in one glorious sequence. This OnDemand webinar illustrates the process of rolling your characters, plot, dialogue, and action into one glorious showstopper to get your work stuck in the heads of Hollywood buyers.($39.99 value)

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