Return to course: Fiction Writing Foundations

Fiction Writing Foundations

Understanding Story and Structure

Guidelines, not rules

What is a story?

What is a short story?

Developing Ideas for your Story, or, Make Your World Small

Write a Short Story From Your Concept

Plotting Your Story (or Not)

Creating a Story through "Pantsing" and "Plotting"

Editing and Completing Your Pantsing, Plotting, and Mixture Stories

Structuring Your Story

Create a Story - Desire, Obstacles and Fights, Conquer or Fail

Components of Story

Point of View - Overview

Third Person Point of View

Second Person Point of View

First Person Point of View

The Unreliable Narrator

Character Expression and Development

Revisiting the Point of View Story for a Re-Write

A Very Full Story - Adding All the Components

Revising Your Story

Choose (or Write) a Story for Deep Dive

First Draft Editing

Post Your Story for Alpha Review

Embracing Critical Feedback

Evaluating Feedback

Making Revisions - Let 'er Rip!

Post Your Story for Draft Review

Diving Deep into Draft Revisions

Iterate Through Revisions

Post Your Story for Last Review

Adding Emotional Impact

Attention Grabbing Beginning

Make Your Characters Complex

Write a Story with Engaging Start and Interesting Characters

Eliminate Mushiness

Increase the Stakes

Make Overcoming or Failing Real and Deeply Felt

Write a Complex Thriller

Final Revisions and Completing Your Story

Deciding When to Designate Your Story as Complete

Posting and Celebrating

Do It All Over Again and Again!

Post Your Story for Last Review

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