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The Easy Way to Write Short Stories That Sell

How to come up with and write short stories for magazines, ezines, book compilations and self-publishing with Amazon!
Bestseller
Rating: 4.8 out of 54.8 (300 ratings)
2,546 students
Created by Rob Parnell
Last updated 8/2020
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Plan, write, edit and polish great stories for publication
  • Improve your fiction writing skills quickly
  • Learn how to submit stories to fiction markets for profit
  • Start to earn cash from self-publishing
  • Discover how to make money writing fiction for a living - with guidance from a professional full-time author!

Requirements

  • If you know how to string a short sentence together, you have all the skills you need to make money writing short fiction.
  • Bring your imagination!

Description

The Easy Way to Write Short Stories That Sell will enable you to plan, write, submit, and sell your own commercial short stories, whether you want to get published by magazines, e-zines and/or in anthologies, or whether you prefer to go it alone - and start making money soon from your self-penned stories on Amazon Kindle.

The course focuses on attaining a professional author's mindset quickly, so that you can immediately begin to get inspired and become proficient enough to write commercial short stories for the marketplace.

Included are over fifty personal lectures on inspiration, genre conventions, instruction of characterization, plotting, structure, and fast writing, plus many text-based mini-courses that explore creative writing in more depth. Also included is an up to date listing of available (paying!) short story markets.

"Master the Art of Short Story Writing with The World's Foremost Writing Guru"

* Harness your imagination quickly

* Acquire the writing habit easily

* Discover how to make your stories more commercial

* Learn the habits of professional writers in just a few hours

* Begin a new career as an author

* Finally understand the needs of mainstream publishers and editors

Discover the reality of a writer's life, taught to you by the author of over thirty bestsellers.

This course will take you on a thrilling journey, from acquiring the working writer's mindset to thinking of compelling ideas; from learning how to structure stories for maximum effect to correctly formatting and submitting your stories to editors and publishers.

At the end of this course you can expect to be able to write commercial short stories easily and perhaps begin a whole new career as a freelance, paid author.

Rob Parnell has been teaching writing for almost two decades. That experience has been synthesized into this unique course, then specifically designed and structured to help the beginner move from wannabe writer to professional wordsmith.

Starting with an introduction to the writer's mindset, the course first focuses on mental preparation, ideal time management, goal-setting, and the importance of strong self-belief. There are pre-designed templates to aid in your understanding of these issues.

In part two of the course, we look at inspiration and getting ideas, finding subject matter for your stories, as well as providing a clear guide to the fiction genres: romance, thrillers, horror, fantasy, and science fiction.

In the third section, Rob Parnell reveals the tips and tactics of professional writers with crucial guidance on the creation of protagonists, building empathy, character motivation and agenda, dialogue, story setting, style, tone, description, point-of-view, plotting and much more. You will also discover the 7-Step Story Generator - a tool that allows you to develop and test any fiction idea. Plus, learn the ideal 5-Point Story Structure as well as how to easily create templates on which to hang commercial short stories.

Along the way, there are text-based courses on character creation, plotting, and a special presentation of The Art of Story, a downloadable resource that fully explains the more technical aspects of ideal story structure. Rob also hosts a section on writing software, presenting the solution to any writer's needs.

In part four, we explore the actual writing: how to write fluidly, without blocks, for maximum impact. How to create arresting opening paragraphs and compelling text. And, how to edit professionally for submission and publication.

In part five, discover how to find and approach paying short story markets. A full market listing is available with the course. For those who want to self-publish, and start making money immediately, Rob presents crucial advice on formatting and publication through Amazon Kindle.

This course is fully mentored - Rob is available on-line throughout your course journey to answer queries, offer guidance, and give support. Your very own writing guru is just a click away (via the Udemy Console.)

At the end of this course, you will possess a clear understanding of the short story marketplace and will therefore be ideally placed to compete in this exciting and fast-growing new career opportunity. At the very least, you'll be able to write fabulous short stories that people will love and admire!

Who this course is for:

  • No experience necessary! This course is designed for the beginner and would-be professionals who may have lost their motivation.
  • Suitable for all ages - 14 and up (you can never be too old to write!)

Course content

11 sections • 42 lectures • 3h 6m total length

  • Written Introduction to the course
    02:11
  • Preview05:45

  • Preview06:30
  • It's All About Mindset
    07:17
  • What Tools Do You Need to Succeed?
    05:34

  • Mental Preparation
    04:23
  • Time Management
    05:50
  • Self Belief
    02:35
  • Goal Setting
    01:36

  • Inspiration
    06:49
  • Subject Matter
    04:14
  • Genre
    07:22
  • Genre Conventions
    02:59
  • Scope
    02:34
  • Getting Ideas
    02:29

  • The 7-Step Story Generator
    02:12
  • Characters and Character Creation
    03:34
  • Creating Protagonists
    07:15
  • Character Motivation and Interactions
    02:59
  • Story and Setting
    03:10
  • The 5-Point Story Structure
    02:23
  • Style and Tone
    02:14
  • Point of View & Tense
    03:06
  • Plotting and Your Twist
    05:06
  • Building a Template
    02:40
  • Story Length, The '1-2-3 Bang' Plot, and Other Structures
    03:41

  • The Art of Story Presentation
    34 pages

  • All Hail Scrivener!
    04:30

  • The Opening Paragraph
    03:08
  • Fast Writing
    04:41
  • The Second Draft & Editing for Story
    03:58
  • Polishing Your Final Edit
    04:33

  • Presentation is The Key
    03:52
  • Rejection
    02:39
  • Rights & Payment
    01:36
  • Formatting for Kindle
    03:59
  • Good Examples to Follow
    00:19
  • Conclusion
    01:48

  • Online Short Fiction Markets
    00:26

Instructor

Rob Parnell
Freelance Writer, Educator, and Bestselling Author
Rob Parnell
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 1,839 Reviews
  • 25,033 Students
  • 15 Courses

Rob Parnell has been teaching authors online since 2002. He has published over fifty bestselling books and courses on genre writing, motivation, productivity and getting rich and healthy. 

You'll enjoy his down to earth style and the sense Rob somehow knows you like a friend! 

He has been writing since he was five years old. He writes every day without fail - it's a compulsion - and he still hasn't run out of things to say... His preferred genre is the thriller - sometimes with a supernatural edge - in which he writes short stories, graphic novels, screenplays, and adult thrillers. 

In between published fiction projects, Rob has written over 40 nonfiction self-help titles and has been published all over the world for the last twenty years. Also a musician and composer, singer, media producer and budding movie maker, Rob is ecstatically happy to be married to Robyn Opie Parnell, his savior and the popular bestselling children's author.

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