Understand what makes a story so you can make your story great.
What you'll learn:
What you'll learn:
- You'll gain a better understand how the elements of story work and how to ramp them up in order engage the audience more profoundly.
- At the end of this course, you’ll come away with some very focused questions to ask of your own work, and you’ll be better equipped to see exactly where and how your stories are weak and can be improved.
Writers of story-driven fiction or memoir oftenpay too much attention to crafting beautiful sentences. It's not that poetic lines aren't appealing, but story is way more important. Can you think of any very successful novels that were horribly "written"? Their success came from their storytelling.
This short course provides an introduction to the key elements necessary for every story and for every scene in your story. If you want to craft stories that have momentum, that readers cannot set down, you need to understand what a story really is. Ensuing courses in my Momentum series go into much more depth, but this course is the foundation.
