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Personal Development Creativity Writing

Read like a writer and write a short story

Intermediate level
Rating: 4.2 out of 54.2 (5 ratings)
52 students
Created by Farah Ahamed
Last updated 6/2019
English
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What you'll learn

  • How to read like a writer and write a short story
  • How to deconstruct and examine in depth what makes a good short story
  • How to critically analyse short stories written by classic and contemporary fiction writers ranging from Katherine Mansfield, Richard Yates, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • How to analyse technique and craft
  • How to develop plot
  • How to analyse and use dialogue
  • Understand the use of literary techniques such as symbolism and flashbacks
  • How to analyse conflict and resolution
  • How to edit

Requirements

  • An interest in short stories

Description

Learn how to read and write a short story by analysing texts from both international contemporary and classic authors as varied as Anton Chekhov, Richard Yates, Shirley Jackson, James Baldwin, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Atwood  and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

By the end of this course you will have:

1. Learnt how to critically analyse and appreciate a short story for its technique in delivery;

2. Prepared the first draft of your own story;

3. Read a range of stories by international authors;

4. Been making notes of your own observations, experiences and emotions to help you write; and

5. Experimented with different aspects of the writing craft.

Sign up if you love reading short stories, have always wanted to be exposed to a more diverse range of authors and want to write one of your own.



Who this course is for:

  • Short story lovers

Course content

12 sections • 24 lectures • 1h 23m total length

  • Course Organisation
    01:21
  • Course Structure
    01:08

  • Preview07:51
  • Conflict and resolution
    5 questions
  • Lecture 2: Brainstorming Ideas
    05:55
  • Ideas
    3 questions

  • Preview04:25
  • Point of View
    2 questions
  • Second Person Point of View
    00:59
  • Third Person Point of View
    06:22
  • Third Person Point of View
    1 question

  • Consolidating ideas to write a plot
    01:45

  • Titles
    01:25
  • Short story titles
    1 question
  • A title for your short story
    1 question

  • What is the difference between internal and external conflict?
    01:24
  • Conflict
    4 questions
  • Internal Conflict
    06:23
  • External Conflict
    05:22
  • Developing conflict
    1 question

  • Literary Techniques
    05:26
  • Identifying symbolism in a short story
    1 question
  • Starting your story - your first paragraph
    02:37
  • Starting your story
    1 question

  • Characterisation
    16:38
  • Characterisation
    2 questions
  • Developing a backstory
    1 question
  • Character development
    2 questions

  • Purpose of Dialogue
    01:41
  • Tone and Dialogue
    2 questions
  • How to write focused dialogue
    03:03
  • Conflict and Dialogue
    1 question
  • Narrative and Dialogue
    02:20
  • Writing your story up to its conflict scene
    1 question
  • Summary
    00:16

  • Chekhov's Gun
    00:55

Instructor

Farah Ahamed
Short story writer
Farah Ahamed
  • 4.2 Instructor Rating
  • 5 Reviews
  • 52 Students
  • 1 Course

Farah Ahamed writes short fiction which has been published in The Massachusetts Review, Comma Press, and Kwani?. Her stories are bound by an overall sense of oppression and rebellion and explore the ways in which culture, religion, politics and tribalism constrain and determine working life and relationships. They range in time from the early days of independence in East Africa to the present.

Her writing spans many themes –identity, self-determination, ethnic/religious/gender conflicts, through to relationships, and family dynamics. Throughout she is trying to understand our humanity: what sets us apart, and bring us together, as humans.

Recently she was longlisted for the Canadian CBC Books 2019 Short Story Award. She was joint winner of the inaugural Gerald Kraak Award and was highly commended in the London Short Story Prize. Her essays and stories have been shortlisted for the Thresholds Essay Prize, Screen Craft Prize, SI Leeds Literary Prize, DNA/Out of Print Award, and The Asian Writer Short Story Prize. She has been nominated for The Pushcart and Caine prizes.

Farah is a lawyer with a Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She was born in Kenya and currently lives between London and Lahore. At the moment she is working on a short story collection inspired by Lahore.


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