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    How to Write Top Quality Fiction Course
    How to Write Top Quality Fiction Course
    How to Write Top Quality Fiction Course
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    How to Write Top Quality Fiction Course

    By Geoff Davis

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    Anyone can learn to write! If you can talk, you can write. However, to write top quality successful fiction which others want to read takes training, guidance and practice. You can get that here from experienced writers who have also taught writing and know how to mentor new talent.

    We all have stories to tell, but schools do not teach us really how to express them. They teach us to understand literature in an academic way and to write academically, but not how to create stories others want to read.

    An inspiring easy to understand course with exercises, suitable for beginners as well as experienced writers. Chapters include how to get inspired, along with advanced topics like how to write an action scene, and how to write between the blinks...

    This course is written by Karena Andrusyshyn M.Ed, a published author and teacher of creative writing. It is part of a How to Write series that includes Script Writing, Modern Muse: Poetry and Advertising Copy, and Genres. The publishers Story Software also run online fiction and scriptwriting courses with professional tutors.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGeoff Davis
    Release dateJun 1, 2015
    ISBN9781311274014
    How to Write Top Quality Fiction Course
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    Geoff Davis

    Books:I have been writing fiction on and off for many years (PEN International, and small presses), all were print published.Editor of an AI Fiction Anthology, please visit the Story Software website below.Founded Micro Arts Group - 1980s Computer Art - which released a text story generator in 1985.Story Software Writing Apps - designed the free creative app Notes Story Board and the older Story Lite. A new AI editor Story Live is also available.

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      How to Write Top Quality Fiction Course - Geoff Davis

      HOW TO WRITE TOP QUALITY FICTION COURSE

      With exercises

      Karena Andrusyshyn M.Ed. Copyright © 2012-2015

      From Story Software makers of Story Turbo. All rights reserved.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from Story Software.

      Edition 2.0: May 2015

      Want a top popular creative writing app, with notes and images and 100 free files?

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      Get our other books – How to Write books and others – see Story Software for full list.

      Thanks for the interest – I hope you enjoy this book.

      Geoff Davis May 2015

      Contents

      Introduction to fiction: A Look Around the Magic Kingdom

      Working with Ideas: The Potter’s Wheel 1

      Working with Ideas: The Potter’s Wheel 2

      Setting the Mood

      Setting the Scene

      Conflict

      Creating Believable Characters

      Writing Riveting Dialogue

      Writing Between the Blinks (advanced)

      Writing Short Fiction

      It Was a Dark and Stormy Night – short fiction example

      Point of view (POV)

      Action Writing: How to Plan the Action [1/3 parts]

      Action Writing: How to Write the Action [2/3]

      Action Writing: Writing the Fast Action Sequence [3/3]

      Useful links

      Chapter 1: Introduction to fiction: A Look Around the Magic Kingdom

      So you are, or want to be a writer, but you do not know where to start.

      You may have taken some courses and even read some interesting books, but somehow it’s not coming together. Perhaps you’re just not inspired. Well, I don’t know anyone who is inspired, except once in a while myself. There are times when a sight or sound or even a smell, especially a smell, will inspire you. However, most of the time we just plug away at it until something starts to take shape, and that is inspiring.

      Medium length fiction is the easiest place to start, because it allows you to develop characters, plots and subplots, and bring them all together into a story.

      Short stories, commonly chosen as the first genre to attempt, are actually harder to write than novellas. This is because you just don’t have enough room. Every word has to count, to move your story forward, to make things happen. You cannot waste any words. The shorter the story is, the harder it is to write.

      So you may choose to begin with a moderately long short story or a short novella. I will begin by explaining the parts of the story.

      A story needs to have a beginning, a middle and an end. I know that sounds really stupid, because everybody knows that, except of course, beginning writers. In fact, even well seasoned writers may have trouble with one of these three.

      Beginnings are hard for me. It’s not that I can’t begin, but I always seem to begin way before I should. You then have to cut a whole bunch out until I find the real beginning. I do not remember who told me or where I read it, but I have never forgotten one phrase about beginnings: find the moment when the universe changed and that is your beginning. Now I understand that, because I’ve lived with it a long time, but I guess I need to explain it to you.

      The moment when the universe changed is the time when nothing will ever be the same again. We lived through dozens or even thousands of these, but they generally pass by unnoticed. As an author you need to look at your character’s life and find that moment.

      You can practice finding this moment with very good stories that are out there for you to read. Any of the classics, all the really good books and even great movies and plays all have this moment. It is what story builds to or from. It is what the entire plot and all the characters revolve around.

      There are other moments of change, even great change throughout a good story, but the one moment when the universe changed is where your story began.

      There

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