Writing Bestselling Fiction
Offered By: BBC Maestro
Course Description
Overview
Join Ken as he teaches you everything he knows about writing bestsellers – from the importance of establishing a writing routine to getting your book published.
- Get started with an idea
- Create compelling characters
- Use pace to create a page-turner
- Research and fact-checking
- Establish a writing routine
- Get published
Syllabus
- Writing Bestselling Fiction Introduction
- What makes a good idea for a novel
- Developing ideas
- Weaving the narrative
- Research
- The outline
- Finding an agent or publisher
- The first line
- Outline to draft
- Character
- Pace
- Sex and violence
- Genre
- Writing style
- Fact-checking
- My process
- The rewrite
- Publishing and promotion
- Promoting your book
- Reading
- Conclusion
- Ken Follett Q&A
Taught by
Ken Follett
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