What you will learn if you take this course:

• The eight writing crafts (the map): Big Idea, Genre, Narrative, Story Outline, Characterization, World Building, Scene & Chapter Structure, and Prose
• How to engagers readers with the eight crafts
• A fresh definition of story that keeps your writing focused
• How to use the psychology of storytelling to write immersive stories
• The adversity cycle and how to use it to streamline your story outline
• How to author stories before writing them
• How to differentiate between protagonistic and antagonistic genres, story outlines, and scenes and why that matters
• A new way of dealing with the shapeshifting writer’s block

Course Premiere Promo: I will assess your story engine and discuss it with you in a thirty minutes on-one-one call. Do you want a structured overview of the writing craft(s)? Are you interested in learning the psychology of storytelling? What about getting a storytelling edge by learning the secrets of reader engagement?