How to Start a Book, Conceive a Novel, Get a Story Going
What you'll learn
- How to court the Muse, get inspiration from real life, and use AI to get started
- How to brainstorm missing story components
- How to collect and combine inspirations in a mind map
- How to construct the Eight Crafts story engine
- How to produce a working story outline
- How to use the eight writing crafts to categorize your ideas
- Tips and strategies for writing your first draft
Requirements
- There are no minimum requirements for this course.
Description
Do you have a cool story idea but are stuck on how to begin your novel?
You're not alone! Starting a novel is often the most challenging part of the writing process, but it’s also where the magic begins. In this course, you'll learn how to turn flashes of inspiration into a structured and compelling story outline.
I’m Stefan Emunds, a certified positive psychology coach and the author of the The Eight Crafts of Writing course. Over 14,000 students have enrolled in The Eight Crafts of Writing Udemy course. I combined my positive psychology and creative writing expertises to develop psychological storytelling techniques that will help you jumpstart your story. We’ll cover everything from courting the Muse, to harnessing inspiration from real life, and getting help from AI.
Whether you're writing fiction for the first time or looking to refine your craft, this course will guide you through each stage of starting your novel and setting it up for success. By the end of this course, you'll have the tool and confidence to birth your novel.
Getting started is easy! Enroll in the course, and you’ll gain instant access to its video lectures and downloadable resources. Each module is structured to build on the previous one, ensuring the course won't overwhelm you.
Further, I will give an example of a story I perceived and show how I took it from a story idea to an outline. This is the story of Kaito, an accountant in Tokio who brought shame upon himself and vanished from his life, leaving behind his wife and children. But fate took him into even deep waters and a life-changing crisis.
What you’ll learn:
How to court the Muse, get inspiration from real life, and use AI to get started
How to brainstorm missing story components
How to capture and organize your story ideas
How to use the eight writing crafts to categorize your ideas
How to design the Eight Crafts story engine
How to come up with a working story outline
Enroll today and bring your story to life!
Who this course is for:
- This course is for aspiring writers who want to learn how to begin a story.
- This course is also for seasoned writers who want to add writing strategies to their portfolio of skills.
Instructor
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 164 Reviews
- 14,399 Students
- 3 Courses
Modern authors do so much more than authoring books, Tarot decks, and courses. They also maintain blogs, produce videos, hold speeches, and discuss relevant subjects on social media. They offer a holistic service that revolves around the value they labor to produce for their audience. In Stefan’s case, the value is enlightenment, the evolution of consciousness.
In his early twenties, Stefan backpacked through Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. At that time, he discovered enlightenment. After thirty years of studying the subject, he created an enlightenment blog, the Inspiration and Enlightenment Workshop, which ranks among the top 100 enlightenment websites worldwide.
After marrying, he transitioned into the corporate world as a business development manager in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. From designing and selling complex IT systems for telecommunication operators, he developed a knack for simplexity, the simplification of complex tasks. This allowed him to author The Eight Crafts of Writing — a methodology for story writing. Writing novels is as complex an undertaking as delivering telecommunication systems.
Recognizing the profound impact narratives can have on personal growth and understanding other people and cultures induced in him a passion for storytelling. His first published novella is a story about an honorable knight who struggles to navigate the temptations and ordeals of a not-so-honorable world.
Later in life, Stefan became a certified positive psychology coach. With over forty years dedicated to studying Tarot and the Tree of Life, Stefan has become an authority in psychological-enlightenment Tarot applications. His innovative Tarot deck, The Enlightenment Tarot, is based on an objective and holistic framework he derived from the Tree of Life.
Today, Stefan lives in the Philippines, where he continues his quest for enlightenment while embracing the serenity of island life. With a wealth of experience and a commitment to personal growth, Stefan invites others to join him on the journey toward psychological expertise, self-discovery, and enlightenment.