Writing for Young Adults

Join Malorie as she shares the fundamentals of fantastic fiction, so you can turn your idea into a finished story, ready to be sent out to agents and publishers.

• Plot out your chapters
• Create character biographies
• Write great dialogue
• Understand your audience
• Pitch to agents and publishers
• Finish your novel manuscript

• Writing for Young Adults Introduction
• Process
• Influences
• Where do ideas come from?
• Theme
• Story vs plot
• Genre
• Story structure: part one
• Story structure: part two
• Story structure: part three
• Character & characterisation
• Character informs plot or plot informs character?
• A writer’s relationship with their characters
• Protagonists, antagonists & antiheroes
• Tools for conveying characters
• Dialogue as function
• Dialect, big words, bad language & everyday slang
• Style, setting & substance
• Representation
• Tense & viewpoint
• Narrative forms
• The craft and art of writing
• Dealing with writer's block
• The business of writing, part one: before publication
• The business of writing, part two: after publication
• Malorie's conclusion