Learn the fundamentals of writing engaging fiction in this helpful course taught by an award-winning novelist and instructor at America's top writing school.
Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Expert
- 01: Starting the Writing Process
- 02: Building Fictional Worlds through Evocation
- 03: How Characters Are Different from People
- 04: Fictional Characters, Imagined and Observed
- 05: Call Me Ishmael-Introducing a Character
- 06: Characters-Round and Flat, Major and Minor
- 07: The Mechanics of Writing Dialogue
- 08: Integrating Dialogue into a Narrative
- 09: And Then-Turning a Story into a Plot
- 10: Plotting with the Freytag Pyramid
- 11: Adding Complexity to Plots
- 12: Structuring a Narrative without a Plot
- 13: In the Beginning-How to Start a Plot
- 14: Happily Ever After-How to End a Plot
- 15: Seeing through Other Eyes-Point of View
- 16: I, Me, Mine-First-Person Point of View
- 17: He, She, It-Third-Person Point of View
- 18: Evoking Setting and Place in Fiction
- 19: Pacing in Scenes and Narratives
- 20: Building Scenes
- 21: Should I Write in Drafts?
- 22: Revision without Tears
- 23: Approaches to Researching Fiction
- 24: Making a Life as a Fiction Writer
Taught by
James Hynes
