Advanced Program in Fiction Writing (12 Lessons)
For each of these lessons, you send your work to the School for careful evaluation and helpful guidance from your Instructor.
First Semester - How to Develop Your Ideas
Lesson
One - Ideas and imagination. How word images can create interest
and suspense. How fictional ideas are created.
Lesson Two - How to tell a good story. How to find and use the story ideas that are all around you. How to use description and dialogue to infuse life into a story.
Lesson Three - Four elements of a short story - character, situation, setting and theme. How to related these elements and breathe life into your characters.
Lesson Four - Importance of conflict. How to use conflict to capture and hold the reader's interest. How to plot your outline-the road map of your story.
Lesson Five - Revising and rewriting. Six ways to polish a manuscript...step-by-step revisions by famous authors.
Lesson Six - Writing a successful fiction manuscript. Combining imagination with thoughtful organization. Using the Principles of Good Writing to create a successful story.
Second Semester - How to Establish Your Style and Write for Publication
Lesson Seven - Workshop Assignment. This evaluation gives you professional help on a manuscript of your own choice.
Lesson Eight - Developing your style. Honing your writing to reflect a special, personal flavor that's right for you. Telling a story in the first person.
Lesson Nine - Flashbacks and clues. How to handle the subtle art of foreshadowing. Using the flashback as a vital, effective element of your story.
Lesson Ten - The subtleties of dialogue. How to refine ordinary conversation so that every word advances the story, delineates character and intensifies the emotional impact.
Lesson Eleven - The end...and the beginning. In this lesson you put together all of the components covered in the Fiction Writing Course to create a satisfying well-structured story.
Lesson Twelve - Workshop Assignment. With the completion of this graduation assignment you can face the future with confidence - knowing that you have received complete and practical training to become a successful writer. And as a lasting testimonial to your achievement you will have earned a Certificate of Recognition, shown here.
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