Write a conversation in which no character speaks more than three words per line of dialog.*<\/p>\n
\u201cI did it!\u201d Nora cheered.
\nNick turned away from the punch bowl. \u201cDid what?\u201d
\n\u201cIt!\u201d She smiled slyly.
\n\u201cYou know.\u201d
\n\u201cYou did not.\u201d
\n\u201cDid!\u201d
\nNick watched Nora dubiously.
\n\u201cWhen? With who?\u201d
\n\u201cBatman over there.\u201d
\nNick looked across into the crowded dining room to where Batman and Batgirl stood holding up a wall. Batman was fidgeting with the waistband of his costume. Batgirl, cocked on one leg with her arms crossed, scanned the revelers.
\nNick couldn’t identify the alter egos behind the costumes.
\n\u201cWho is that?\u201d
\n\u201cI’m not telling,\u201d Nora teased.
\n\u201cIs it Regan?\u201d
\nNora smiled over at Batman, but said nothing.
\n\u201cWell, is it?\u201d
\n\u201cDoes it matter?\u201d
\n\u201cI guess not.\u201d
\n\u201cGood,\u201d she concluded. \u201cYour turn!\u201d<\/p>\n
*My work from an exercise during “The 1-Day MFA: Lessons in Voice, Character, and Dialogue with Sara Kocek,” a workshop designed to condense the most important lessons of an MFA degree into one comprehensive tutorial, put on by the Writers’ League of Texas<\/a>. (To not waste any of the 10 minutes thinking up character names, so I used Nick and Nora from the Thin Man<\/em> movies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Batman was fidgeting with the waistband of his costume. Batgirl, cocked on one leg with her arms crossed, scanned the revelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-gestures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}