WEEK 1: How to Think Short: Learning the Concepts Behind Short Stories
WEEK 2: How to Plan Short: Building the Pieces of Short Fiction
WEEK 3: How to Write Short: Writing to Submission Lengths
WEEK 4: How to End Short: Landing The Twist and The Meaning
WEEK 5: Contests, Anthologies, Collections: Writing To A Theme
WEEK 6: Time and the Short Story: 50 Years in 6000 words
WEEK 7: Spin Off, Spin Into: Creating Good Short Fiction to Market Long Fiction
WEEK 8: Genre Short Stories: Hitting Fundamental Notes
As part of the class, writers will write:
- one short story of any sort
- one genre short story OR literary short story
- one short story written to a theme OR written to spin off from or into the writer’s existing long fiction
These eight lessons will also include information on adapting lessons to literary markets, working subtext (hidden deeper meaning) into stories, and timeless marketing, pricing, and packaging information for indie publishers.
By the way, I have a cover art poll up in the forum. If you’re a member, it’s here: Cover art troubleshooting and cover design comment/crits #1
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