Introduction to Commercial Fiction Writing

Introduction to Commercial Fiction Writing

“Thank you so much for taking part in this course and I hope you've enjoyed it. It's now time to work on your project. This could mean finishing the book you started by completing the course tasks or making a brand-new project! Either way, I strongly suggest you take the time to gather inspiration and make a unique project of your own. Make sure to keep track of your progress with different pictures of each step. It'd be great if you could also explain the choices you've made along the way and tell us if you have any doubts. This will help me guide you better if you need advice. Here are the main steps to follow: Practice Makes Perfect! Soak up inspiration from everywhere and write in your notepad every day.

The Community Become part of a writing community and analyse the books you love to help pin down your own personal writing style. Character Development Create the main love interest (and other characters) that are utterly appealing to you – you want to feel as though you're falling in love with them as you write. It's so important to connect with your emotions. The Setting Visit settings and use visualisation techniques to root your story in a vivid reality. The Synopsis Plan your novel and make sure you spend plenty of time daydreaming about your key scenes so you're excited to write them – they will keep you striving forward. And that's all! I can't wait to see your opening pages! So don't forget to share your work in the forum. You can do so by clicking on 'Create your project'. Remember to share both the final result and the steps that have led you to it. It would be great if you showed a picture of each step and added a brief explanation about what you have done in each one. I will be more than happy to answer any of the questions you might have along the way! I will try to get back to you as soon as possible. In the meantime, participate in the forum, comment on others' work, and interact with the community. See you there!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Welcome to the final video and thank you so much for taking this Domestika course. I really hope you're feeling excited now about getting started on your book. By now you should have lots of great ideas and several key scenes that you just can't wait to write. So having written 20 novels, these are the essential steps that I go through in order to write a novel. And hopefully it will help you to write yours too. First, I think it's really important that you write every day. Just grab yourself a notepad, get inspired. write about what you see and start to build your confidence as a writer. N...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Commercial Fiction Writing

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (66)
• 3168 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 49m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Fiction Writing, Writing