Creative Writing
Creative Writing: Fiction and Narrative Craft for Beginners
Write Stories That Work
12 lessons4 modules8h 51m durationbeginner level
About this course
This course teaches the foundational craft of fiction writing through direct instruction and hands-on practice. Each lesson focuses on a single technique — character building, scene construction, dialogue, point of view, voice, and revision — with concrete exercises you can apply immediately. By the end you will have the tools, vocabulary, and habits of a working fiction writer.
Curriculum
Module 1: Character: The Engine of Every Story
- Desire, Wound, and ContradictionPreview
- How to Write a Character Who Changes🔒
- Secondary Characters Who Do Real Work🔒
Module 2: Structure: How Stories Are Built
- Scene, Sequel, and the Unit of Story🔒
- The Midpoint Shift and Why Your Story Needs One🔒
- Endings: How to Close What You Opened🔒
Module 3: Voice, Point of View, and the World on the Page
- Point of View: Choosing Your Narrator🔒
- Voice: How Your Story Sounds🔒
- Setting as Character: Place That Does Work🔒
Module 4: Dialogue, Showing vs Telling, and Revision
- Dialogue That Does More Than Talk🔒
- Showing vs Telling: When to Use Each🔒
- Revision: How to Read Your Own Work🔒
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