Learn how to transform thoughts and experiences into words. A comprehensive writing program from top writers, critics, and publishers will teach you how to turn your thoughts and experiences into a work of fiction.
Reveal your talent to the world!
Who is this course for?
Beginning authors
Understand where to start writing a book and how to complete the text correctly.
Create an exciting plot and original characters. Learn how to find a publishing house and get your book out to readers.
Journalists
Learn how to work professionally with large texts, develop an individual style and unique author’s language, and master the art of being heard. And most importantly, realize that writing is a skill that can be developed!
PR, SMM managers, copywriters
Create really interesting texts that will grab readers’ attention from the first sentence, learn how to make voluminous texts short and to the point without losing key points, and develop an author’s style.
Course program
MODULE 1
From short stories to full-length novels: peculiarities of text structure in different genres and how authors can work on them.
MODULE 2
Varieties of writing techniques and how the classics wrote: from Agatha Christie to Umberto Eco.
MODULE 3
Plot and composition. The concept of conflict in the text and its types.
MODULE 4
The hero in the text: the hero’s biography and how to develop it. The author in relation to the characters in the text.
MODULE 5
Development of secondary characters in the text: from name to character. Transformation of the hero and its impact on the characters in the work.
MODULE 6
The author’s individual style: narrator’s language and dialogues in the text. Peculiarities of the work’s time-space and linguistic portrait.
MODULE 7
Writer’s self-editing of the manuscript: algorithms and techniques. Involvement of beta readers during the writing process and after its finalization.
MODULE 8
Basic rules for submitting a finished manuscript draft to a publishing house. Features of text formatting and principles of communication with editors.
MODULE 9
Copyright for the author: property and non-property rights and why they should be understood. Agreement for a writer: details and conditions. Violation of the agreement and the algorithm of actions in case of an offense.
MODULE 10
Book marketing and author promotion. The main tools for book promotion. Cases of successful authors.