How To Write Short Stories with Jane Bettany OfCourse
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Course details

Understand the different elements of short fiction writing and how to weave them into a completed story
  • Identify suitable markets
  • Edit, prepare and submit your manuscript for publication
  • Explore story openings, conflict, using flashback, characters, dialogue and how to end your story.

If you want to write fiction, then short stories are a great place to start and agreat source of income.

This course, led by author Jane Bettany, will show you how to find ideas, put your stories together and how to submit them to an editor. We will cover essential elements of story writing such as plot and structure, dialogue, characterisation, setting, tense, viewpoint and so much more!

There are downloadable writing exercises, a list of current short story markets, lecture handouts and short stories themselves.

Finally, we will cover editing †Updated on 14 October, 2018

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