
Watch and replicate the instructor's process to learn book writing from outlining to writing and editing. Begin from scratch, pause to imitate the same story in your own words.
Configure your Word environment for outlining by maximizing the window, enabling the navigation pane, and adjusting normal and heading styles, then save the document in a folder with camelback naming.
Outline the story by focusing on plot, defining the unknown man, a vagrant, and a police officer, and organizing places with head level headings and chapters.
Explore practical outlining and world-building techniques, from defining setting and era with details like city streets and fedoras, to crafting chase scenes, cliffhangers, and a third person omniscient narrative.
Learn to outline a thriller with evolving plot elements, setting scenes, and nonsequential writing to refine chapter by chapter while preserving flexibility.
Transition from outlining to writing by starting the story in third person past tense with an omniscient narrator, then shape chapters, outlines, and opening scenes to engage readers.
This lecture demonstrates craft techniques for a book, including active voice, avoiding repetition, and dialogue-driven pacing that reveals a character's confusion after an assault.
Continue writing by developing dialogue between a main character and an old man, exploring narrative pacing, dialogue formatting, and word-count planning for a 65,000-word novel across 40 chapters.
Expand dialogue and manage word count with spiral editing, then explore self editing techniques and a tool called gram really to reduce copy editing costs.
Visually edit from the end toward the beginning, paragraph by paragraph, focusing on wording, grammar, and syntax with word suggestions for precise, tense-consistent copy editing.
Learn to edit with the Grammar Lee word extension, correct present tense and wordiness in Word, manage passive vs active voice, and apply Oxford comma guidance from style guides.
Continue to write in creative writing practice, draft iteratively, expand scenes of a disoriented man navigating olden city streets, seek a police officer, and finish the chapter.
Finish writing chapter 1 chronicles a man directing traffic to an officer, then heads to a coffee shop, while practicing dialogue attribution and planning to copy edit and expand scene.
Finish editing chapter one, adding a cliffhanger and foreshadowing for future events. Edit backwards to tighten scenes—from a police officer directing traffic to a diner—polish prose and reduce passive voice.
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In this course I demonstrate how to write a book by recording my computer screen while outlining, writing and editing a book in real time. Become a better writer by watching me and then pausing the video and replicating the step that I just demonstrated. These writing sessions are recorded in real time all the way from outlining a book, to writing the book and even self-editing the book using visual editing techniques and Grammarly grammar checking software . Watch as I create a book from scratch without having any prior idea of what I'm going to write. You can eve watch me scratch my head and think since a head shot video of me is displayed in the lower right of each lecture.
Whether you're new to writing, experienced or English isn't your native language, this course is for you. The course is based on the simple principle that people learn fastest by copying the actions of others. Once you've internalized the techniques outlined in the course then you'll be ready to write your own book employing your unique writing style.
A Real Time Writing Session in Microsoft Word 2016
Each lecture features a blown up screencast of a Microsoft Word 2016 writing session with me in the lower right hand corner of the screen as a green screen talking head video. The course is recorded in real time capturing all my mistakes and success from which you can learn. Watch as I actually write a book (or at least part of one), then pause the video and do what I just demonstrated.
Digest the Course Material By First Watching and Then Doing
The recommended way to internalize the material contained in this course is to watch a lecture and then pause the video and go replicate what I just demonstrated. You can replay the lecture at any time if you can't remember each step. I recommend that you try to duplicate my exact outline, writing and editing process as demonstrated. In the end you'll have a finished manuscript and will have improved your writing skills by following along with the course.
Want to Learn How to Write? Let Me Show You How
This course is unique for me in the sense that I've done very little editing to the recorded video. This has allowed me to produce the course fast and allows you to watch the entire process in real time.
In addition, I plan to release this course early in the development process. In fact, I'd like to release it after the first day of recording. I'll then come back to the course and continue adding material until the book is finished or the course is long and has provided a sufficient demonstration of the book writing process.
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Please enroll now if you're ready to begin writing a book with me and by doing so improve your writing process and skills.
I'll see you in the classroom,
---Brian