Designed specifically for those with little to no fiction writing experience, find your pathway towards your fiction writing goals. Learn the basic building blocks of story: character, plot and setting. Then find out the different forms of fiction writing and some of the genres you might like to explore.
Whether you’ve never written a word of fiction, or haven’t written since high school or college, you will complete the course with the skills you need to get started. Create a new work of fiction, or revive an old one that’s been sitting in your bottom drawer.
CEUs/ILUs: 1.6
One Month Course
Length (in hours): 16
Price in USD $195.00
Price in CAD $265.00
Agenda
Unit 1
The building blocks of story
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Character
- Conflict
- Setting
- Plot and story structure
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Short story versus novel
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Who are we writing for?
Unit 2
Character and Conflict
- Protagonists and antagonists
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Secondary characters
- Character archetypes
- Character desires, conflicts and stakes
- Dialogue
Unit 3
Setting and Plot
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Contemporary versus fantastical and historical settings
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Setting as character
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Three act plot structure and the hero’s journey
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Time jumps and flashbacks
- Prologues and epilogues
Unit 4
Putting it all together
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Strategies for outlining
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Character-driven versus plot-driven outlines
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Overcoming writer’s block
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Researching markets
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Creating a marketing plan