The Basics of Writing a Compelling Short Story

The Basics of Writing a Compelling Short Story, available at Free, has an average rating of 4.55, with 21 lectures, based on 74 reviews, and has 1018 subscribers.

You will learn about Write in a way that will feel more honest and natural to readers. Avoid common mistakes. Build strong writing habits Learn how to develop a voice. This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner writers. It is particularly useful for Beginner writers.

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Title: The Basics of Writing a Compelling Short Story

Price: Free

Average Rating: 4.55

Number of Lectures: 21

Number of Published Lectures: 20

Number of Curriculum Items: 21

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 20

Original Price: Free

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Write in a way that will feel more honest and natural to readers.
Avoid common mistakes.
Build strong writing habits
Learn how to develop a voice.

Who Should Attend

Beginner writers.

Target Audiences

Beginner writers.

Have you ever read a book that just fell flat? Especially one that was recommended to you by someone you respect, and you just couldn’t get into it?

Short stories are often held to a higher standard, and, more often than not, looked down on by non-writers.

Why are short stories so important? For writers, it’s because writing a short story is how we practice. It’s how we test ourselves and push our imaginations to the very limit. Novels are great for some things, but it’s easy to let your characters fall into worn-out roles. In short stories, your characters are constantly tested due to word limitation and it’s some of the best practice in the world. Not to mention, if you think that writing a story in 100,000 words is hard, try to put that same story in 1,000!

In this course, I will not only cover some of the basics of writing (including common pitfalls) but I will also break down a short story into its parts and explain them. At the end of this course, you will have a firm grasp of a short story and how to write one.

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Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome to On Writing: Short Stories

Chapter 2: The Basics of Writing

Lecture 1: Discovery vs. Architect Writing

Lecture 2: Grammar and Punctuation

Lecture 3: Dialogue Tags

Lecture 4: Honesty in Writing

Chapter 3: Misused and Overused Words

Lecture 1: Misused words

Lecture 2: Overused words

Lecture 3: Adverbs: Or, the "ly" words

Chapter 4: Show, don't Tell

Lecture 1: No more Thesis Statements

Lecture 2: Unpack what you're trying to say

Chapter 5: The Short Story

Lecture 1: Short Story: An Overview

Lecture 2: The Premise

Lecture 3: Characters

Lecture 4: The first line and paragraph

Lecture 5: Dialogue

Lecture 6: Editing the Story and Submitting it

Chapter 6: The Mentality behind Writing

Lecture 1: Read, Read, Read!

Lecture 2: Write everything down?

Lecture 3: Block out a schedule and stick to it

Chapter 7: Thank you for taking this course

Lecture 1: Thank you for participating in this course

Instructors

Nathaniel Mellor
Writer

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