Course Highlights
  • How to craft a believable story, characters, and dialogue
  • How to employ essential editing and critical-thinking tools
  • How and when to employ traditional story structures
  • How to employ metaphor and visual storytelling techniques with a focus on visual symbolism for a modern audience
  • How to write for the modern age, achieve originality, and navigate traditionally sensitive or taboo topics fiction
Curriculum

8 Topics
The Key Elements of Story
Research
The Three-Act Structure
Character Development
Character Conflict and Humanity
Writing Dialogue
Genres of Fiction
Publication

8 Topics
Free-writing and Journaling
Exposition and Backstory
The First-person POV and Alienation
Second- and Third-person POV and Audience Identification
Short and Long Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Text Context and Subtext
Editing

8 Topics
Developing a Writing Style
Symbolism and Metaphor
The French Symbolists
Visual Storytelling and Writing for the Screen
Modernism
Postmodernism
The Beat Generation and 20th-century Counterculture
Textual Analysis

8 Topics
Culture and Subculture
Writing Gender in the 21st Century
A Look at 21st-century Canon
Words in the Information Age
Intertextuality
Parody Pastiche and Satire
Politics in Literature
The Point of it All - The Writer as a Mouthpiece for the Zeitgeist

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