Perfect Pacing for Fiction Writers: Nailing Act One

Perfect Pacing for Fiction Writers: Nailing Act One, available at $44.99, has an average rating of 4.35, with 13 lectures, based on 15 reviews, and has 121 subscribers.

You will learn about Draw readers in from Chapter One with dynamic pacing. Introduce your characters, world, and conflict with flair. Create prose that makes your reader need to move on to the next chapter. This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is for writers of fiction and narrative nonfiction who want to create a strong first act to their novel or memoir. or This course is NOT designed for technical writing, such as manuals, copy, or other nonfiction business writing. It is particularly useful for This course is for writers of fiction and narrative nonfiction who want to create a strong first act to their novel or memoir. or This course is NOT designed for technical writing, such as manuals, copy, or other nonfiction business writing.

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Summary

Title: Perfect Pacing for Fiction Writers: Nailing Act One

Price: $44.99

Average Rating: 4.35

Number of Lectures: 13

Number of Published Lectures: 13

Number of Curriculum Items: 13

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 13

Original Price: $19.99

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What You Will Learn

Draw readers in from Chapter One with dynamic pacing.
Introduce your characters, world, and conflict with flair.
Create prose that makes your reader need to move on to the next chapter.

Who Should Attend

This course is for writers of fiction and narrative nonfiction who want to create a strong first act to their novel or memoir.
This course is NOT designed for technical writing, such as manuals, copy, or other nonfiction business writing.

Target Audiences

This course is for writers of fiction and narrative nonfiction who want to create a strong first act to their novel or memoir.
This course is NOT designed for technical writing, such as manuals, copy, or other nonfiction business writing.

Course Description

Do you wonder how your favorite novelists create openings that grab you, pull you in, and make you need to read to the next page? In this course, you’ll learn how to pace your first chapters with flowing, dynamic prose. Whether you’re looking to self-publish or are searching for an agent, editor, or publisher, you’ll discover the techniques to build a strong story opening.

Contents and Overview

This course contains thirteen lectures and approximately fifty minutes of video content. In addition, it contains worksheets with practical exercises that you’ll apply to your own work.

For those vital opening chapters, I’ll teach you what I’ve learned as an editor. My experiences editing for a New York Times bestselling publisher, and now for independent authors, have shown me the mistakes so many authors make in those first pages. We’ll cover three major areas that trip many writers up:

Introducing characters for the first time
Confusion between world building and world introduction
Presenting your story’s initial conflict

Each of these areas will be broken down into the following lessons:

The most common problems writers make
A case study of an author who’s done it well
Worksheets with exercises to apply to your own story

Whether you have a completed draft that you need to polish, or you’re writing down your story for the first time, these techniques will help you create a story with pacing that pulls the reader to the next page.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome, and Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: How to Get the Most from Perfect Pacing

Lecture 3: Philosophy of Pacing

Chapter 2: Character Introduction

Lecture 1: Introducing Characters: The Most Common Issue

Lecture 2: Case Study: Character Intro, Harry Dresden

Lecture 3: Exercise: Revising/Writing Your Character Intro

Chapter 3: Introducing Your World

Lecture 1: Introducing Your World: The Info Dump

Lecture 2: Case Study: World Intro, Jim Butcher

Lecture 3: Exercise: Revising/Writing Your World Intro

Chapter 4: Establishing Conflict

Lecture 1: Establishing Conflict: The Problem

Lecture 2: Case Study: Establishing Conflict, Jim Butcher

Lecture 3: Exercise: Introducing Initial Conflict

Chapter 5: In Conclusion

Lecture 1: The Next Step

Instructors

Faith Van Horne
Editor, Writing Instructor

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