Novel Writing: Structure Your Story
What you'll learn
- Understand Three Act Structure
- Create Act 1 of Your Story: Hook, backstory and Trigger
- Create Act 2 of Your Story: Crisis, Struggle and Epiphany
- Create Act 3 of Your Story: Plan, Climax and Ending
- Apply "Scene and Sequel" to make creating your manuscript a breeze!
Requirements
- There are no prerequisites, but you may want to check out Novel Writing: Creating Characters for some useful foundation
- All you need to benefit from this course is a desire to write great fiction!
Description
Have you started a novel only to get part way into the manuscript and find yourself stuck? Or do you have an idea for a novel but aren't sure where to begin? Have you completed a first draft but feel it doesn't quite have the luster of professional Novel Writing?
In this lively and fun course Steve Alcorn shows you how to achieve success. You'll learn how to write a novel step by step.
During the past two decades, Steve Alcorn has helped more than 20,000 students structure their novels, and many of them are now in print. Steve's courses are rated an average of 5 out of 5 stars.
This course show you how to structure your story, including:
- Understanding three act structure
- Structure your Act 1: Hook, Backstory and Trigger
- Structure your Act 2: Crisis, Struggle andEpiphany
- Structure your Act 3: Plan, Climax and Ending
- Use "Scene and Sequel" to make creating your manuscript, fast, fun and exciting
Whether you're a first time novelist still planning your story or an experienced author looking for ways to bring your fiction to life, Steve Alcorn's novel writing courses will show you how to succeed!
Who this course is for:
- This course is perfect for beginning or experienced writers
- These techniques apply to novels, short stories and screenplays
Instructor
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 4,431 Reviews
- 34,645 Students
- 16 Courses
Steve Alcorn is a theme park designer, author, teacher, and the founder of Writing Academy. His novels include mysteries, young adult stories, historic fiction and romance. His is also the author of How to Fix Your Novel.
Steve has helped more than 30,000 aspiring writers structure their novels, through the online learning programs of 1500 colleges and universities worldwide. Many of his students are now published authors, and you can be, too!