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Creative Writing Masterclass: Start Writing Your Own Stories
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About Creative Writing Masterclass: Start Writing Your Own Stories
Welcome to Class
What is Creative Writing & What is the Course Project?
Exercise 1: Choose Your Story Prompt
Elements of a Great Story & Why Do We Write?
General Grammar Rules & Rule Breakers
The Core Elements of a Story
Characters - What Makes a Strong Character?
Characters Types - Protagonist, Antagonist and Supporting Characters
Character Analysis - Harry Potter
Conflict: Building Drama in Your Story
Plot: The Beginning, Middle and End of Your Story
Setting: Where Your Story Takes Place
Theme and Point of View
Story Analysis: The Great Gatsby
Story Analysis: The Great Gatsby
The Differences & Similarities of Fiction and Nonfiction Stories
Writing Creative Nonfiction Stories
Nonfiction Analysis: Prompt
Nonfiction Story Analysis: Father Time
Exercise 3: Brainstorm Your Story Elements
What Medium is Right for Your Story?
What is a Writer's Style?
Style Analysis: Ernest Hemingway
A General Overview of the Writing Process from Idea to Publishing
Outlining: How & Why We Outline
Writing Your Synopsis
Building Your Story in Your Outline
Exercise 4: Outline Your Story
Tips for Writing Your First Draft
Exercise 5: Write Your First Draft
Goals and Key Elements of Editing Your Writing
Edit the Aesthetics
Show Don't Tell
Assess the Goals of Your Story
Strengthen When Necessary
Exercise 6: Edit Your First Draft
Methods for Sharing Your Writing + Getting an Agent
Self Publishing Your Writing
Submitting to Literary Journals and Magazines
More Recommendations for Publishing Your Work
Self Publishing eBooks and Printed Books Can Be Easy
Amazon Kindle Tutorial: Publishing Your eBook and Print-on-Demand Book
Seeing Your Book Sales & Amazon Marketing Best Practices
Final Thoughts on Creative Writing
Thank You
What You Will Learn?
- Write your own stories, essays, books. Learn grammar, structure, and how to publish with this creative writing course..
- Have you ever wanted to write? Do you have ideas for stories but don't know exactly how to tell them? .
- Creative writing is how you do it, and this course will teach you everything you need to start writing today..
- This creative writing course is perfect for you whether you want to write short stories and essays, fiction or nonfiction books, novels or novellas. If you're curious about writing but need to learn how to get started, we invite you to join this class..
- WHY TAKE THIS COURSE?.
- This course is taught using real world writing experience as well as analysis of professional and historical fiction and nonfiction work..
- This course is also highly actionable. Throughout the course you'll be practicing all of the concepts. By the end of class, you should be well on your way to writing your own story..
- WHO IS YOUR INSTRUCTOR?.
- Brian Birmingham is a writer in the Film and Television Industry working as a screenwriter & copywriter. Brian is passionate about all kinds of writing and is excited to show you modern writing techniques..
- MORE ABOUT THIS COURSE:.
- Start with an introduction to creative writing including why we write, the reasons to write, and how to find ideas for your stories. The first part of this course lays the groundwork for being a good writer. This includes:.
- Learn why we write, and the key elements of great writing..
- Learn grammar, an essential aspect of good creative writing..
- Learn what a writer's style, which includes things like point of view, theme, grammar usage, economy of words, and more. You'll learn how to find and develop your own style..
- Learn the core elements of storytelling, and creating drama through conflict. Learn the structure of a narrative (inciting incident, rising action, climax, and resolution). Learn different common structures, settings, and character development..
- Learn the difference between writing for fiction and nonfiction, and how storytelling elements remain similar in both forms..
- Learn how to choose the right medium for your story..
- The later part of this course covers the process of writing. This includes:.
- Learn tips and strategies to write more and create a writing routine..
- Learn how to outline your story from plot, character, synopsis and formatting..
- Learn how to write your first draft, then how to edit your work..
- This course concludes with lessons on how to find a home for your work. In today's world you have many options for sharing your stories with the world from self-publishing to working with a publisher. This course even contains step-by-step tutorials on how to self publish your book with Amazon..
- If you want to quickly and easily learn creative writing, this is the course for you..
- Cheers,.
- Brian Birmingham.