Fiction Writing 101

Description

A guide for writers new to writing screenplays and/or literature that fills you in on the essential elements of storytelling as well as tricks of the trade that enable you to write innovative stories that you believe in which can be shared, appreciated and sold to the world. For those who have written already, effective strategies to improve your craft and reach a wider audience. Demonstrations of literary de novo improvisations for screenplay and novel contained within the course, with explanations for why each word, phrase and line was written.

This is a course designed for writers at all levels who write fictional stories as novels, novellas or short stories as well as screenplays in a wide variety of genres. Special attention is made to the differences and similarities of screenplay vs book writing. Numerous tricks of the trade are related in a manner that is entertaining, informative, inspiring and honest.

Screenplay and story are structure but they are also embedded with believable characters. The intimate relationship between plot and character is also given special attention so that freedom of expression is related in a way that is understandable and relatable to a wide variety of audiences. This course best suits writers who want and need to put their heart and soul into the endeavor on their own terms but in a language that is maximally relatable to the world, and to potential buyers. Writing is both an art and a science, the course being presented by a prolific screenwriter/author who, in a past career, was a highly accomplished and biomedical researcher and lecturer specializing in neuroscience, who knows the importance of integrating logic with intuition in writing, and life.