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Read like a writer and write a short story
Intermediate level
Created byFarah Ahamed
Last updated 6/2019
English
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
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Course content
12 sections • 24 lectures • 1h 23m total length
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