Description: Bring Your Writing to Life
Sharon Short
Learn how to effectively use descriptive techniques to elevate your writing into an immersive reading experience for your readers, including agents and editors.
Point of View: Finding The Heart of Your Story
Sharon Short
Learn the nuances of POV and how to avoid POV pitfalls, how time is an essential part of POV, how POV intersects with character, how to choose the right POV for each story, and how to handle unusual or tricky POVs.
Setting: Create a Vivid Story World
Sharon Short
Learn how to world build in any genre, research setting, use setting to define character and drive plot, and discover techniques for weaving setting into other creative writing craft elements such as theme and voice.
Voice: The Personality of Writing
Sharon Short
In this course, examples of voice from literature, music, and art will deepen your understanding of and appreciation for voice. You will explore all these elements, experiment with them, and emerge with a stronger voice for your writing projects, making them memorable and engaging for readers.
Character Development: Creating Memorable Characters
Sharon Short
Learn how to create believable fiction characters and construct scenes with emotional depth and range. You'll discover character development techniques and tips along with practical advice for weaving emotion into scenes
Write Great Dialogue
Sharon Short
Dialogue can be one of the most interesting parts of a book to read, but only if it is done right. Sharpen your writing skills and challenge yourself to craft engaging, yet believable dialogue that will keep your readers interested.
Research for Writers
Sharon Short
In this online writing course, you will learn how to manage your research time and effort, and even become comfortable with it. Youā€™ll learn how to find resources, streamline the process, and organize results.
Outlining Your Novel
G. Miki Hayden
Writers often look upon outlines with fear and trembling. But when properly understood and correctly used, the outline is one of the most powerful weapons in a writer's arsenal. In this course, you will learn how to write an outline as you explore what type of outline is right for you, brainstorm plot ideas, and discover your characters.
21 Days to Your Novel Outline and Synopsis
Bryan Young
This course is designed to help you understand how to craft a winning premise, how to outline your novel, and then how to take both of those things and assemble a synopsis that will act as a guide for you to write your novel and sell it.
Build Your Novel Scene by Scene
Mark Spencer
If you want to learn how to write a story, this is the course for you. Get the impetus, the guidance, the support, and the deadline you need to finally stop talking, start writing, and, ultimately, complete that novel you always said you wanted to write.
12 Weeks to a First Draft
Mark Spencer | Terri Valentine | G. Miki Hayden | John DeChancie
Dive into the world of writing and learn all 12 steps needed to complete a first draft. In this writing course you will tackle the steps to writing a book, learn effective writing techniques along the way, and of course, begin writing your first draft.
The Novel Opening
G. Miki Hayden
How can you produce an infallible story opening? Action, voice, an immediate interest in the characters, and a hook that pulls in the reader and which is designed around your particular genre.
