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Quick Riff [1]

Fiction [2]
3.29.17

NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest [3] had over six thousand entries this year, and was unanimously won by hip-hop and R&B band Tank and the Bangas. One of the techniques the band incorporates is a kind of lyric dialogue between Tarriona “Tank” Ball and Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph who share singing roles, much like two best friends finishing each other’s sentences. Work on a piece of dialogue between two characters who interrupt each other, or riff off of a stream of consciousness flow in conversation. How might you use this technique to build tension in a story?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/quick_riff [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] http://www.npr.org/event/music/519418207/tank-and-the-bangas-tiny-desk-concert