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Business Communications Novel Writing

Novel Writing Workshop

Turn your idea into a published novel, step by step. Includes 27 video lessons!
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (1,499 ratings)
12,757 students
Created by Steve Alcorn
Last updated 10/2020
English
English [Auto]
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What you'll learn

  • Turn Your Idea Into a Novel
  • Discover Your Dramatic Elements
  • Create a Premise that Sells
  • Develop Interesting Characters
  • Construct Your Novel in Three Acts
  • Learn How To Write Effective Scenes
  • Explore Viewpoint, Voice and Tense
  • Add Conflict, Mystery and Suspense
  • Polish Your Manuscript
  • Develop a Marketing Plan
  • Get Published!

Requirements

  • Open to all aspiring writers, young or old, experienced or just getting started

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. Here you'll learn How to Write a Novel Step by step you'll breathe life into old manuscripts create new novels that real like bestsellers and put the spark back into your writing life. Topics include:

* Story Structure
* Character Building
* Viewpoint
* Tense
* Voice
* Setting
* Conflict
* Suspense
* Mystery
* Dialogue
* Writing Big
* Beginnings and Endings
* Getting Published

Whether you're a first time novelist still planning your story or an experienced author looking for ways to bring your fiction to life Novel Writing Workshop is the course for you.

Who this course is for:

  • First-Time Authors
  • If Your Manuscript Needs Polish
  • If Your Manuscript is Unfinished
  • Authors Who Want to Get Published

Featured review

Allan Sharp
Allan Sharp
31 courses
4 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a year ago
The course goes into necessary detail about how to set up your story and characters and actually write your novel. There is also some candid information about the reality of getting your book published in the Information Age and how to get it into the hands of readers. These days that often means in the form of a digital book.

Course content

6 sections • 28 lectures • 4h 58m total length

  • Preview09:21
  • Preview08:22
  • Dramatic Elements
    10:25
  • Planning
    6 questions

  • Character Building
    16:13
  • Your Protagonist
    06:46
  • Your Antagonist
    06:15
  • Other Characters
    05:12
  • Characters
    5 questions

  • Three Act Structure
    09:13
  • Act One
    08:49
  • Act Two
    07:48
  • Act Three
    13:43
  • Story Structuring Checkpoints
    6 questions

  • Scene and Sequel
    18:42
  • Conflict
    06:06
  • Suspense
    09:56
  • Mystery
    04:53
  • Pacing
    06:29
  • Viewpoint
    12:08
  • Voice
    07:28
  • Tense
    06:58
  • Setting
    11:06
  • Dialogue
    14:17
  • Beginnings and Endings
    20:26
  • Creating Your Manuscript
    8 questions

  • Writing Big
    26:13
  • Writing Well
    11:47
  • Polishing Your Manuscript
    5 questions

  • Collateral
    08:02
  • Manuscript Evaluation Checklist
    11:17
  • Getting Published
    19:56
  • Selling Your Novel
    6 questions
  • Next Steps
    1 page

Instructor

Steve Alcorn
Published Author and Educator
Steve Alcorn
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 3,150 Reviews
  • 25,798 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!

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