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Fiction Crash Course - Writing Skills & Methods for Success!
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(22 ratings)
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Fiction Crash Course - Writing Skills & Methods for Success!

Learn the skills to write engaging fiction, develop your voice, and become the successful writer you want to be!
Created byTrace Crawford
Last updated 9/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • This is a fun and practical fiction writing course designed to get you excited about creating your own work!
  • How to discover, perfect, and share your own writer's voice.
  • A series of authentic writing projects designed to target the skills you need.
  • Writing techniques, literary devices, and specialized skills.
  • How to become a successful and confident writer!
  • Micro-fiction, short stories, and modular writing!

Course content

15 sections • 50 lectures • 3h 54m total length

  • Introduction3:59
  • How Udemy Works!3:20

    Before we get cracking, here are a few reminders about how Udemy in general and this course will work.

Requirements

  • Just a desire to write and willingness to try the activities in the course!

Description

Course Overview:

This is a fun and practical creative writing course designed to get YOU excited about creating your own works of fiction!

Writing techniques, literary devices, and specialized skills will be covered to help you discover, perfect, and share your own unique writer's voice.

While review quizzes over major concepts are provided along the way, the true measure of progress will be in the authentic writing projects that you will complete as you progress toward your goal of becoming a successful and confident writer!


The Course Includes:

  • 49 video lectures organized into 13 easy to understand lessons/subject areas

    • Each lesson is broken down into multiple video lectures that include:

      • A quick writing assignment aligned with the day's goals

      • A lesson covering an area of course content

      • A practical application project to get you using your new skill

  • 13 online review quizzes presented throughout the course

    • Quizzes are designed to reinforce the major concepts discussed in the class

  • 39 graphics, notes, templates, assignments, or outside resources to further your knowledge base

    • Supplemental materials are provided for every lesson

  • Over 3 1/2 hours of video lessons


Course Goals:

Through taking this course, you will develop and perfect your personal writer's voice as you learn about:

  • Types of characterization and character development exercises

  • The six basic types of plots

  • Basic elements of fiction such as theme, tone, setting and point of view

  • Literary devices and writing techniques you can start using today

  • The need for writing good description

  • The importance of writing satisfying endings

  • Advanced writing techniques such as the use of motif, irony, and ambiguity

  • How choosing the right word can mean everything

  • The function of fiction in life and it’s ability to reshape reality

Who this course is for:

  • Everyone with a creative streak and a nagging desire to write

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