Course Title: Advanced Fiction Writing
Hours required: 24
Price: $99
Length course offered: 6 Weeks
Instructor: Steve Alcorn [Bio]
Description:
Each lesson includes an assignment that will help you develop or polish your manuscript. And in the Discussion Area, you'll have an opportunity to share your work with classmates to obtain their feedback.
In Advanced Fiction Writing, you'll explore the essential techniques that are often overlooked by other writing classes and textbooks. And you'll explore them in a clear, step-by-step fashion that will make it easy for you to turn your story idea into a published book. Join us for the next six weeks, and you'll never look at fiction writing the same way again!
Goals:
In this course, you'll learn a writer needs to create a successful manuscript, including story structure, plot, character, dialogue, setting, suspense, conflict, action, viewpoint, tense, and even how to get published.
Grading System:
Confirmation of Completion awarded with passing score.
School Description:
Instructor Bio: Steve Alcorn
Steve Alcorn is the published author of a wide range of fiction and nonfiction works, including the mystery A Matter of Justice, the historical novel Everything in Its Path, the romance Ring of Diamonds (under the pseudonym Sharon Stevens), and an illustrated journal of his travels around the world called "Travel Kid." When he isn't writing and teaching, Steve serves as the president of Alcorn McBride Inc., a company that engineers equipment for all of your favorite theme park rides.
