Writer and Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Natalia Reyes walks us through her quest for understanding how dialogue works, starting with a workshop with Mitchell Jackson at the Napa Valley's Writing Conference.

Mentioned in this episode: Mitchell Jackson, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family (2019); Charles Johnson, The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling (2016); Seymour Chapman, Reading Narrative Fiction (1998).

Music: Carole Cassier

The Quarantine Quill is a creative writing podcast hosted by Anna Polonyi with the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking. The podcast will be bringing you a daily writing tip and prompt for as long as PICT's creative writing events are on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. For more details on the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking, please visit parisinstitute.org.