2024 WGSA Online Sessions: Back to Basics – Writing a good dialogue

Join Dorette Nel for an insightful session on crafting character-driven dialogue that resonates with viewers. Drawing from her extensive experience in live-action television, feature films, and animation, Dorette will provide pointers on how to create compelling conversations that bring characters to life. This session is designed to equip emerging writers with the skills to develop dialogues that captivate and engage audiences.

Session details

Date: 14 August  2024

Time: 18h00 – 19h00 SAST

Location: Online (The Zoom link will be distributed via email. Add pdpassistant@writersguildsa.org to your contact list)

Registration closes on 13 August 2024 at 18h00 SAST

WGSA members attend for free. Non-members pay R50.

Meet your speaker

An experienced Writer-Producer who does more than wrestle words, Dorette was selling tickets to her self-conceptualised back-yard concerts long before she hit the school benches. Her passion for entertaining people led her to content development and scriptwriting. She nurtures ideas, shapes them and journeys with them, until they come to life. A NFVF registered story- & script editor, she has graced many story rooms, taking concepts from mere ideas, to high quality, produced content in various genres of live-action television, feature film and animation. She is equally at home working as storyteller, editor, strategist, motivator, and sometimes…therapist. Her titles include: “How To Manifest A Man S1 & S2” – Headwriter ‘uMbali’ / “Nikiwe” / “Gomora Season 3 & 4” – Story Editor “Housemaids” / “Ikhaya Labadala” – Writer-Storyliner “Generations – The Legacy” – Script editor, scriptwriter