Writing Fiction Course | Unlock Your Creative Writing Potential
Are you ready to bring your creative ideas to life and craft compelling fiction? Our Writing Fiction Course is designed for aspiring writers looking to develop their storytelling skills. Learn the essential techniques for writing engaging characters, building tension, and creating immersive worlds. Whether you’re interested in writing short stories, novels, or any other form of fiction, this course will guide you through the writing process from concept to completion.
What You Will Learn
- Techniques for developing well-rounded characters
- How to build plot structure and pacing to keep readers hooked
- Writing authentic dialogue that brings your characters to life
- Methods for editing and polishing your work for publication
Why Take This Course?
- Boost Your Writing Skills: Master the fundamentals of fiction writing and take your stories to the next level.
- Learn at Your Own Pace: Study online, on your schedule, with expert support and feedback.
- Unlock Creative Potential: Explore your unique voice as a writer and gain the confidence to share your work.
What Is Creative Fiction?
Creative fiction is a literary form based on imaginative storytelling rather than factual events. It includes genres like romance, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction, and is expressed through novels, short stories, and novellas. Unlike non-fiction, which presents real-life facts, fiction allows writers to create characters, worlds, and narratives that explore emotions, ideas, and human experiences in a creative and meaningful way. Through fiction, writers can entertain, inspire, and offer new perspectives on the world and the human condition.
Whether you’re just starting out or looking to refine your writing, this fiction writing course will provide the tools and knowledge to turn your fiction writing dreams into reality.
Writing Fiction course detailed course outline
There are 8 lessons in this course:
- Scope and Nature of Fiction
- Elements
- Types of Fiction (Category/genre and Mainstream)
- Characteristics of Category Fiction (strong plot, hero/heroine, motivation. Action, background/setting)
- Characteristics of Mainstream Fiction (Strong plot, Action or intrigue, hero, heroine, romance, happy ending)
- Book, play or short story
- Categories (Fantasy, fairy tale, fable, myth, legend, science fiction, western, drama, romance, comedy, horror, crime, suspense, erotica)
- Getting an Idea (using a fragment, philosophical approach, develop from a title or opening sentence)
- Back story
- Types of writing
- Theme development
- Write an Analogy
- Writing a Balanced Theme
- Are You Suited to Writing Fiction ; Imagination, Being Informed, Human Behaviour
- Importance of Focus
- Components of a Story
- Story Components
- Story Structure
- Theme
- Plot
- Characterisation
- Settings
- Developing your own Style
- Aspects of Style
- Case Study
- Technique
- Conception (Characters, Settings, Events)
- Write a Synopsis
- Developing a Story
- Examples of Plot Structure
- Method Writing (Developing characters, changing characters, Appropriateness of characters, Revealing characters through crisis, names, stereotypes, creating dynamic characters)
- Writing a Draft
- Editing and Rewriting
- Conception and Research
- Conceiving a Story
- Parts of Conception
- Making conception original
- Types of research (Primary and secondary data)
- Planning a formal survey
- Drama
- Writing a Dramatic Story
- Common mistakes
- Time Shifting
- Transition between events
- Dramatic conflict
- Motivation
- Dialogue
- Point of View
- Representing Characters Speech
- Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Methods to develop Sci Fi
- Fairy Tales
- The Short Story
- Characteristics of Short Stories
- Length in terms of: the time frame; the number of characters; the number of events; the number of settings
- Common Problems with Short story Writers
- The Novel
- Guidelines
- Planning a Novel
- Making a story Endure (Archetypes, etc)
- Tips
- Getting Started
- Submitting a Manuscript
- Which Publisher
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.