Creative Writing: Write Your Novel By Watching Movies First
What you'll learn
- Students will take away fiction writing techniques not found in typical writing courses
- Students will be able to immediately implement effective changes in their revision process
- Learn from an award-winning author with nine novels out by imprints of Random House and Simon & Schuster
- Enjoy multiple classic films on a new, professional level.
Requirements
- Have watched or have the ability to watch several movies from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
- Have started or are about to start a novel or other work of fiction.
Description
Ready to make your writing take off to new heights? Whether you are still working on your first manuscript or have several novels already out in the world, this course will show you some nooks and crannies in popular films that can be mined for your fiction. From multi-purpose, concise dialogue to well-rounded character work, the class is a fun, fast look at how a few movies can help you improve your writing!
Who this course is for:
- Writers looking to improve their craft
- Unpublished writers looking for agents or to self-publish in the near future
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 128 Reviews
- 610 Students
- 4 Courses
Tom Leveen is an award-winning author and Bram Stoker Award-nominee of nine novels with imprints of Random House and Simon & Schuster and others, and almost a decade of professional teaching experience, and he has written for the comic book Spawn. He has been a keynote speaker and guest lecturer at universities, writers associations, schools, conferences, and conventions in the U.S. and abroad. He brings more than twenty years of experience as a live theater actor and director to his fiction and his classrooms, marking him as an expert in dialogue for all mediums of storytelling.