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How to Write Best-Selling Fiction

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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Fiction Writing Courses Character Development Courses Publishing Courses

Course Description

Overview

<p class="Body"><span>Join an award-winning, best-selling author as he divulges the secrets best-selling writers have employed for years and learn how to use them to elevate your own writing.</span></p>

Syllabus

  • By This Expert
  • 01: Tell Me a Story
  • 02: Anatomy of a Best Seller
  • 03: Developing Ideas
  • 04: The LOCK System: A Foundation for Your Novel
  • 05: Structuring Your Novel
  • 06: Act I: The Disturbance
  • 07: Act II: The Arena of Conflict
  • 08: Act III and Resolution
  • 09: Jump-off-the-Page Characters
  • 10: Bringing Characters to Life
  • 11: Point of View
  • 12: The Essentials of Dazzling Dialogue
  • 13: Tools for Talk
  • 14: Voice and Style
  • 15: Make a Scene
  • 16: Subplots and Parallel Plots
  • 17: Deepening the Reader’s Emotional Experience
  • 18: First Pages That Grab the Reader
  • 19: Revising Your Novel
  • 20: Blunders and Baloney
  • 21: Getting Published
  • 22: The Self-Publishing Option
  • 23: Marketing Your Work
  • 24: Conquering the Mental Game of Writing
  • 25: How to Write Short Stories That Sell (BONUS)

Taught by

James Scott Bell

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