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Writing for Young Adults

via BBC Maestro

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Overview

Join Malorie as she shares the fundamentals of fantastic fiction, so you can turn your idea into a finished story, ready to be sent out to agents and publishers.
  • Plot out your chapters
  • Create character biographies
  • Write great dialogue
  • Understand your audience
  • Pitch to agents and publishers
  • Finish your novel manuscript

Syllabus

  • Writing for Young Adults Introduction
  • Process
  • Influences
  • Where do ideas come from?
  • Theme
  • Story vs plot
  • Genre
  • Story structure: part one
  • Story structure: part two
  • Story structure: part three
  • Character & characterisation
  • Character informs plot or plot informs character?
  • A writer’s relationship with their characters
  • Protagonists, antagonists & antiheroes
  • Tools for conveying characters
  • Dialogue as function
  • Dialect, big words, bad language & everyday slang
  • Style, setting & substance
  • Representation
  • Tense & viewpoint
  • Narrative forms
  • The craft and art of writing
  • Dealing with writer's block
  • The business of writing, part one: before publication
  • The business of writing, part two: after publication
  • Malorie's conclusion

Taught by

Malorie Blackman

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