{"id":2454,"date":"2019-11-11T13:29:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T18:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nhwritersproject.org\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2019-12-03T13:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T18:47:17","slug":"writing-monologue-approaches-giving-voice-voiceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nhwritersproject.org\/writing-monologue-approaches-giving-voice-voiceless\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing the Monologue: Approaches to Giving Voice to the Voiceless"},"content":{"rendered":"
Saturday December 7, 2019, 1:30-4:30pm Would you give more than a penny for your characters\u2019 thoughts? Learn to enhance your characters and their stories through an exploration of mastering their inner narrative \u2013 their<\/strong> thoughts put on paper. Your characters\u2019 inner monologue is the essence of fiction. Interesting internal narrative, when appropriately balanced with action and dialogue, is the life\u2019s blood of any story. No wonder it is difficult to do.<\/p>\n We have just the workshop to help you master this difficult technique. Whether you are writing a novel or one act play, presenter Robbi D\u2019Allesandro will share insights and techniques that will be helpful to you. In her workshop, you will learn varied ways to tap into the critical psyche of your characters and through these processes, deepen the overall meaning of your work.<\/p>\n Robbi D\u2019Allesandro received her MFA from Lesley University in Writing for Stage and Screen (2010), and her MS in Personality and Social Psychology from Northeastern University (2002). She won the 2011 Kennedy Center Paula Vogel National Playwrights Award for her full-length play\u00a0Broken Prayer<\/em>\u00a0and was nominated for the Christopher Brian Wolk Excellence in Playwriting Award for the same work. Robbi attended the O\u2019Neill Playwrights Conference as a Visiting Fellow in 2012, and the Kennedy Center Summer Writer\u2019s Intensive in 2011. Her short play\u00a0Living\u2026Again<\/em>\u00a0recently won SLAM Boston 2014. She won Best Original Sitcom in the New York Screenplay Competition for her television sitcom\u00a0Outliers<\/em>. Robbi has been contracted for the adaptation of Ron Drez\u2019\u00a0Twenty-Five Yards of War: The Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men<\/em>\u00a0for television and represented by Gersh for the adaptation of Dean Morrissey\u2019s\u00a0Ship of Dreams<\/em>,\u00a0The Monster Trap<\/em>, and\u00a0The Great Kettles<\/em>\u00a0for screen.<\/p>\n WHERE:<\/strong>\u00a0The workshop will be held at The Ford House on the campus of SNHU (2500 North River Road, Manchester, NH 03106 \u2014\u00a0Directions and parking info here<\/a>)<\/p>\n WHEN:<\/strong>\u00a0Saturday, December 7, 1:30-4:30 pm<\/p>\n COST:<\/strong>\u00a0This workshop is $65 for NHWP members or $85 for nonmembers and is limited to 12 students. Register now to ensure your spot in the class using the \u201cRegister now\u201d button below.<\/p>\n Not a member? Want to join a community of writers working to foster an audience for literature in New Hampshire?\u00a0Click here to join or renew your membership to the New Hampshire Writers Project.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n