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How to Write An Awesome Thriller or Horror Novel

From First Word to Final Draft
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (32 ratings)
7,409 students
Created by Rick Wood
Last updated 5/2020
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Creative Writing
  • Horror Writing
  • Thriller Writing
  • Fiction Writing
  • Developing Ideas
  • Developing Characters
  • Using Genre
  • Structuring Your Story
  • The Redrafting Process
  • Writing Techniques
  • How to Get Your Book Published

Requirements

  • An interest in writing

Description

This is the course that enrolled more than 3,000 students in the first 48 hours!

Are you struggling to get your novel finished, or even started?

This is a comprehensive course that will take you from the beginning of the novel process, through to the end.

This includes:

- How to develop your idea

- How to develop your characters

- How to use the tropes of the thriller or horror genre in an original way

- How to plan and structure your story

- How to approach your first draft

- How to redraft your novel

- How to develop your writing techniques

- What to do when you're ready to publish


Who this course is for:

  • Aspiring Writers
  • Horror Writers
  • Thriller Writers
  • Creative Writers
  • Novel Writers

Course content

7 sections • 30 lectures • 4h 12m total length

  • Preview06:06

  • Preview04:58
  • Session 2: Horror Subgenres
    10:40
  • Session 3: Thriller Subgenres
    06:51
  • Session 4: How to Stand Out While Staying the Same
    06:26

  • Session 1: Coming Up With Ideas
    07:43
  • Session 2: Researching Your Novel
    06:27
  • Session 3: Developing Your Characters
    18:36
  • Session 4: The Three Act Structure
    14:52

  • Session 1: Approaching Your First Draft
    07:21
  • Session 2: The Redrafting Process
    04:39
  • Session 3: Redrafting Structure
    12:57
  • Session 4: Redrafting Prose
    18:54

  • Session 1: What to Expect in this Module
    02:28
  • Session 2: Creativity
    09:17
  • Session 3: General Rules to Break or Follow
    10:12
  • Session 4: Point of View
    07:10
  • Session 5: Style
    09:14
  • Session 6: Chekhov's Gun
    04:48
  • Session 7: Linear Vs Non-Linear Narrative
    06:19
  • Session 8: Dialogue
    06:49
  • Session 9: Setting
    06:23
  • Session 10: Theme
    04:43
  • Session 11: Rhetoric
    10:38
  • Session 12: Series Writing
    08:15

  • Session 1: Types of Editors and Where to Find Them
    08:09
  • Session 2: Responding to Editor's Feedback
    04:43

  • Session 1: Traditional Publishing Vs Independent Publishing
    09:53
  • Session 2: Publishing Independently
    07:22
  • Session 3: Publishing Traditionally
    09:55

Instructor

Rick Wood
Amazon Bestselling Horror and Thriller Author
Rick Wood
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 116 Reviews
  • 9,486 Students
  • 2 Courses

Rick is a full-time author who has published over thirty horror and thriller novels, six of which have been bestsellers in Amazon categories such as Ghost Thrillers and Ghost Suspense. He also has an MA in Creative Writing and is currently studying for his PhD in Literary and Critical Studies.

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