About This Course
This course will take you on a thrilling journey on how to acquire the working writer’s mindset to think of compelling ideas, how to structure stories for maximum effect, and how to correctly format and submit stories to editors and publishers. You will learn how to possess a clear understanding of the short story marketplace and will therefore be ideally placed to compete in this exciting and fast-growing new career opportunity.
Each part covers the following:
- Part 1: Introduction to the writer’s mindset, mental preparation, ideal time management, goal-setting, and the importance of strong self-belief
- Part 2: Getting ideas and inspiration, finding subject matter for your stories, plus a guide to the fiction genres: romance, thrillers, horror, fantasy, and science fiction
- Part 3: Tips and tactics of professional writers with crucial guidance on the creation of protagonists, building empathy, character motivation and agenda, dialogue, story setting, style, tone, description, point-of-view, and plotting plus the 7-Step Story Generator
- Part 4: How to write fluidly for maximum impact, how to create arresting opening paragraphs and compelling text, and how to edit professionally for submission and publication
- Part 5: How to find and approach paying short story markets, how to correctly format and publish through Amazon Kindle, plus a full market listing
Our Promise to You
By the end of this course, you will have learned the easy way to write short stories.
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Course Curriculum
| Section 1 - The Course | |||
| Written Introduction | 00:00:00 | ||
| Introduction To Short Story Writing | 00:00:00 | ||
| Who Am I To Run This Course? | 00:00:00 | ||
| It’s All About Mindset | 00:00:00 | ||
| What Tools Do You Need To Succeed? | 00:00:00 | ||
| Mental Preparation | 00:00:00 | ||
| Mental Preparation Template | 00:00:00 | ||
| Quick Writing Exercise | 00:00:00 | ||
| Time Management | 00:00:00 | ||
| Self-Belief | 00:00:00 | ||
| Self-Belief Template | 00:00:00 | ||
| Goal Setting | 00:00:00 | ||
| Goal Setting Template | 00:00:00 | ||
| Subject Matter | 00:00:00 | ||
| Subject Matter Template | 00:00:00 | ||
| Genre | 00:00:00 | ||
| Scope | 00:00:00 | ||
| Getting Ideas | 00:00:00 | ||
| The 7-Step Story Generator | 00:00:00 | ||
| Characters And Character Creation | 00:00:00 | ||
| Creating Protagonists | 00:00:00 | ||
| Character Motivation And Interactions | 00:00:00 | ||
| Story And Setting | 00:00:00 | ||
| The 5-Point Story Structure | 00:00:00 | ||
| Short Story Template | 00:00:00 | ||
| Style And Tone | 00:00:00 | ||
| Plotting And The Twist | 00:00:00 | ||
| Point Of View And Tense | 00:00:00 | ||
| Building A Short Story Template | 00:00:00 | ||
| Story Length | 00:00:00 | ||
| All Hail Scrivener | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Opening Paragraph | 00:00:00 | ||
| Fast Writing | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Second Draft | 00:00:00 | ||
| Polishing | 00:00:00 | ||
| It’s All About Presentation | 00:00:00 | ||
| Dealing With Rejection | 00:00:00 | ||
| Rights And Payment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Kindle Publishing | 00:00:00 | ||
| Conclusion | 00:00:00 | ||
| Short Story Market Listing | 00:00:00 | ||
| Fiction And Writing Resources By Rob Parnell | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 2 - The Short Story Writing Course In Text | |||
| The Short Story Writing Course In Text | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 3 - Bonus Items | |||
| Bonus Items | 00:00:00 | ||
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