How to Write an Original Short Story
How to Write an Original Short Story, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.45, with 62 lectures, based on 128 reviews, and has 844 subscribers.
You will learn about The mastery of a unique step-by-step process to write a complete short story. A good grasp of the short story structure. A clear understanding of reader expectations for fiction. The ability to identify life experiences (real or imagined) to write about. Knowledge and skill needed to create exciting turning points for stories. The ability to write effective opening and closing scenes. The ability to write stories from different points of view. An understanding of ways to develop realistic characters. Practice using sensory and perceptual details to create fictional worlds. The skill to write and properly format dialogue. The art of enhancing your story with relevant symbols. An understanding of ways to revise and edit stories for maximum effect. This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who wants to write short stories. It is particularly useful for Anyone who wants to write short stories.
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Summary
Title: How to Write an Original Short Story
Price: $74.99
Average Rating: 4.45
Number of Lectures: 62
Number of Published Lectures: 62
Number of Curriculum Items: 62
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 62
Original Price: $27.99
Quality Status: approved
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What You Will Learn
- The mastery of a unique step-by-step process to write a complete short story.
- A good grasp of the short story structure.
- A clear understanding of reader expectations for fiction.
- The ability to identify life experiences (real or imagined) to write about.
- Knowledge and skill needed to create exciting turning points for stories.
- The ability to write effective opening and closing scenes.
- The ability to write stories from different points of view.
- An understanding of ways to develop realistic characters.
- Practice using sensory and perceptual details to create fictional worlds.
- The skill to write and properly format dialogue.
- The art of enhancing your story with relevant symbols.
- An understanding of ways to revise and edit stories for maximum effect.
Who Should Attend
- Anyone who wants to write short stories.
Target Audiences
- Anyone who wants to write short stories.
Have you always wanted to write fiction but don’t know where to start? Have you started writing but got stuck and don’t know how to finish?
Do you have ideas but find it hard to develop them into a complete story that makes sense? Or do you experience writer’s block, get stuck, and lose motivation?
If you have experienced any of these problems or if you simply want a clear and specific way to develop your idea into a story, you’re in the right place.
This course will present an approach to writing stories that I have developed over a number of years and refined with my students in face-to-face classes.
This approach is a step-by-step strategy for crafting short stories that promises that you are going to write an original short story if you’re willing to follow the basic principles I will present.
It’s different from other systems and other techniques of fiction writing. It’s more structured, and it works really well for beginning writers because it gives them a lot of practical help with the nuts and bolts of building a short story.
We’ll start by discussing some general principles and reading two short stories: one by Guy de Maupassant, and the other by Anton Chekhov.
Then, we’ll get to the sections with specific tips, specific procedures, and step-by-step directions on how to go from start to finish of the whole writing process.
This approach is not magic, its’ not a formula, and it doesn’t include all possible ways to write a story.
Just one way. And one approach.
I realize that there are other approaches, but my goal is not to provide the survey of all possible ways of writing a story. It is to take beginning writers along the most confident path to the completion of their first story.
This course is designed to meet the needs of all beginning fiction writers. I have used this approach in my classroom courses for a number of years, and my students find it effective, efficient, and enjoyable.
I hope you will, too!
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Welcome
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: Why Write Stories?
Chapter 2: Learn from the Masters
Lecture 1: Overview of Section Two
Lecture 2: What is a Short Story?
Lecture 3: Two Master Storytellers
Lecture 4: Activity: Learn from Guy de Maupassant
Lecture 5: Activity: Learn from Anton Chekhov
Lecture 6: Wrap-Up
Chapter 3: Start with Real Life
Lecture 1: Overview of Section Three
Lecture 2: Find Roots of Fiction in Real Life
Lecture 3: Find an Experience that Feels Real
Lecture 4: Find a Turning Point Experience
Lecture 5: Six Tips for Choosing a Turning Point
Lecture 6: Activity: Your First Writing Assignment
Lecture 7: Wrap-Up
Chapter 4: Fictionalize Real Life
Lecture 1: Overview of Section Four
Lecture 2: Understand Real Life vs. Fiction
Lecture 3: Know What Readers Expect
Lecture 4: Activity: Your Second Writing Assignment
Lecture 5: Wrap-Up
Chapter 5: Change Your Point of View
Lecture 1: Overview of Section Five
Lecture 2: First Person vs. Third Person
Lecture 3: Activity: Your Third Writing Assignment
Lecture 4: Wrap-Up
Chapter 6: Build Your Fictional World
Lecture 1: Overview of Section Six
Lecture 2: Add Substance and Details
Lecture 3: Write a Story, not a Sermon
Lecture 4: Balance the Exterior and the Interior
Lecture 5: Create the Interior World
Lecture 6: Activity: Your Fourth Writing Assignment
Lecture 7: Create the Exterior World
Lecture 8: Wrap-UP
Chapter 7: Bring Your Story to Life with Dialogue
Lecture 1: Overview of Section Seven
Lecture 2: The Basics of Good Dialogue
Lecture 3: How to Punctuate Dialogue
Lecture 4: Activity: Improve Sample Dialogue
Lecture 5: Activity: Your Fifth Writing Assignment
Lecture 6: Wrap-Up
Chapter 8: Write Your Concluding Incident
Lecture 1: Overview of Section Eight
Lecture 2: Activity: Your Sixth Writing Assignment
Lecture 3: Wrap-Up
Chapter 9: Find Your Symbols
Lecture 1: Overview of Section Nine
Lecture 2: How to Develop Symbols
Lecture 3: Your Seventh Writing Assignment
Lecture 4: Wrap-Up
Chapter 10: Write Your Opening Scene
Lecture 1: Overview of Section Ten
Lecture 2: What Your Opening Should Accomplish
Lecture 3: Your Eighth Writing Assignment
Lecture 4: Wrap-Up
Chapter 11: Revise and Edit
Lecture 1: Overview of Section Eleven
Lecture 2: Revising with a Purpose
Lecture 3: Your Ninth Writing Assignment
Lecture 4: Finding a Good Title
Lecture 5: Wrap-Up
Chapter 12: Conclusion
Lecture 1: Final Thoughts
Chapter 13: An Extra Lesson with Editing Tips
Lecture 1: Edit Your Story!
Lecture 2: Editing Tip #1
Lecture 3: Editing Tip #2
Lecture 4: Editing Tip #3
Lecture 5: Editing Tip #4
Lecture 6: Editing Tip #5
Lecture 7: Editing Tip #6
Instructors
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Julia Gousseva
College Writing Teacher and Creative Writer
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- 5 stars: 62 votes
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