New French Trailer For GILT
The new French trailer for GILT is très cool.
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Character Development with Alisa Kwitney
Character Development: In this two hour intensive, we will explore strategies and techniques for creating vivid and memorable characters, including methods for disguising and distancing characters based on yourself or real, living people, and methods for writing characters very unlike you from the inside out; why false beliefs and mindworms are the key to character arcs; the importance of friends and rivals as foils; and how to identify the telling details of character appearance, wardrobe and physicality.
NB: This class will be taught on Zoom and will be capped at 15 students.
Dialogue with Alisa Kwitney
In this two hour intensive, we will delve into the strategies and techniques of dialogue, touching on the differences between writing dialogue and replicating real-life conversations; realistic vs. stylized dialogue, and the case for each; dialogue as character, i.e.,writing distinctive speech patterns; banter, crosstalk and verbal swordplay, and what the director Howard Hawks used to call three cushion dialogue.
NB: This class will be taught on Zoom and will be capped at 15 students.
G.I.L.T.
The secret is out! My new comic with Belgian comics artist (and good friend) Alain Mauricet will be hitting a comic store near you on April 6, 2022. G.I.L.T.
Exciting News Sandman and Neil Gaiman fans!
Exciting News! SANDMAN and Neil Gaiman fans, I’m joining up with my friend, the best selling author, story expert and podcastress supreme Lani Diane Rich (https://chipperish.com/), for a new podcast that delves into the Sandman comics. I’ll be drawing on my experiences as a staff editor who worked on The Sandman series under Karen Berger, and Lani will be reading Neil’s seminal comics work for the first time. When we finish reading the collected graphic novels on which the upcoming Netflix TV series is based, we’ll dive into the TV adaptation. Come join us!
Hudson Valley Weird Science Improv Show!
Come check out the Hudson Valley’s improv show this Saturday, February 16 at 7:30 pm in the Beverly in Kingston, N.Y. and you can win a copy of Corpse & Crown!
