Welcome Party
  • Welcome and What to Expect
  • Running Start!
  • Who We Are and How this Course Will Make You a Better Writer
  • Where to Get Help
Great Fiction Ingredient #1: Awesome Characters
  • Appearance (What do they look like?)
  • Mini Lecture: Too Much Information
  • Thought (What are they thinking?)
  • Mini Lecture: Jump Inside Their Head
  • Action (What do they do?)
  • Mini Lecture: The Screaming Stranger
  • Goal/Desire (What do they want?)
  • Mini Lecture: What do They Want?
  • Uniqueness (How are they surprising?)
  • Mini Lecture: 5 Surprises
  • Dialogue (What do they say?)
  • How to Punctuate Your Dialogue (Optional Lecture)
  • Mini Lecture: A Very Bad Conversation
Great Fiction Ingredient #2: A Memorable Setting
  • Why We Need a Setting
  • Mini Lecture: Setting Overload!
  • Familiar Settings (Where your character belongs)
  • Mini Lecture: Build a Bedroom
  • Unfamiliar Settings (Where your character doesn't belong)
  • Mini Lecture: Instant Scene!
Great Fiction Ingredient #3: An Interesting Point of View
  • Who's Telling the Story
  • Third Person Narrative (He, She, It)
  • Mini Lecture: Two Characters, One Point of View
  • First Person Narrative (Me, Myself, and I)
  • Mini Lecture: Who Might Say This
  • Multiple First Person Narrative (More than one I)
  • Mini Lecture: Also at the Ball
Great Fiction Ingredient #4: An Exciting Plot
  • The Story Skeleton (The importance of structure)
  • Part One: Set-Up (Who's got a problem?)
  • Part Two: Conflict (Stuff gets messy)
  • Part Three: Resolution (Sorting it out)
  • Putting it All Together (The rules of 3s)
Goodbye Party
  • Final Farewell
  • More Resources for Writers
  • BONUS LECTURE: Continue Your Writing Journey (Discounts on other courses!)