Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques

Learn the fundamentals of writing engaging fiction in this helpful course taught by an award-winning novelist and instructor at America's top writing school.

• By This Expert
• 01: Starting the Writing Process
• 02: Building Fictional Worlds through Evocation
• 03: How Characters Are Different from People
• 04: Fictional Characters, Imagined and Observed
• 05: Call Me Ishmael-Introducing a Character
• 06: Characters-Round and Flat, Major and Minor
• 07: The Mechanics of Writing Dialogue
• 08: Integrating Dialogue into a Narrative
• 09: And Then-Turning a Story into a Plot
• 10: Plotting with the Freytag Pyramid
• 11: Adding Complexity to Plots
• 12: Structuring a Narrative without a Plot
• 13: In the Beginning-How to Start a Plot
• 14: Happily Ever After-How to End a Plot
• 15: Seeing through Other Eyes-Point of View
• 16: I, Me, Mine-First-Person Point of View
• 17: He, She, It-Third-Person Point of View
• 18: Evoking Setting and Place in Fiction
• 19: Pacing in Scenes and Narratives
• 20: Building Scenes
• 21: Should I Write in Drafts?
• 22: Revision without Tears
• 23: Approaches to Researching Fiction
• 24: Making a Life as a Fiction Writer