Writing skills course

DURING THE COURSE YOU WILL LEARN

• use various fiction writing techniques and storytelling tools;
• create a narrative structure and logic using the life hacks of famous writers;
• construct “living” characters and a system of relationships between characters;
• use different plot schemes and rules for the development of artistic conflict;
• develop an author’s style: from direct speech and character dialogues to the author’s individual voice;
• edit their own text and find a publisher;
• overcome psychological barriers to creativity (self-doubt, fears, creative blocks, tyranny of the “inner critic”);
• write out psychological traumas for the benefit of themselves.

PROGRAM

• What and how works in literature: the formula of a bestseller;
• Writer’s choice of genre;
• Plot and composition. Conflict in the text and its types;
• Creating a hero and characters in a literary text;
• The author’s work with language;
• Writing dialogues;
• The author’s individual style. Peculiarities of the work’s time-space and linguistic portrait;
• Psychological aspects of the creative process;
• How to organize the process of editing your own novel;
• Promotion of the author and the book.

THE COURSE WILL BE USEFUL FOR EVERYONE WHO WORKS WITH TEXTS

• Authors of fiction and nonfiction;
• Journalists, bloggers, publicists;
• Copywriters, SMM specialists, communicators;
• Anyone who has wanted to write a book for a long time but hasn’t dared.