Writing Great Fiction : Storytelling Tips and Techniques
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Starting the writing process -- Building fictional worlds -- How characters are different from people -- Fictional characters, imagined and observed -- Call me Ishmael - introducing a character -- Characters - round and flat, major and minor -- The mechanics of writing dialogue -- Integrating dialogue into a narrative -- And then - turning a story into a plot -- Plotting with the Freytag Pyramid-- Adding complexity to plots -- Structuring a narrative without a plot -- In the beginning - how to start a plot -- Happily ever after - how to end a plot -- Seeing through other eyes - point of view -- I, me, mine -- first-person point of view -- He, she, it - third-person point of view -- Evoking setting and place in fiction --Placing in scenes and narratives -- Building scenes -- Should I write in drafts? -- Revision without tears -- Approaches to researching fiction -- Making a life as a fiction writer.
Lecturer: Professor James Hynes.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
It's a bit dry submitted by majean on July 22, 2022, 3:19pm This would probably be useful to a person new to writing.
SERIES
Great courses.
PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: 24 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (178 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781629971049
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Hynes, James.
Teaching Company,
SUBJECTS
Fiction -- Authorship.
Writing -- Technique.
Fiction -- Technique.