- Welcome and introduction
- Course overview (the 3-minute tour)
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Quick facts
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Medium of instructions
English
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Mode of learning
Self study
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Mode of Delivery
Video and Text Based
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Course and certificate fees
Fees information
₹ 449 ₹3,299
certificate availability
Yes
certificate providing authority
Udemy
The syllabus
Introduction
So what are short stories?
- How short is short?
- Story types - what kind do you want to write?
- DOWNLOAD - Writing Exercise 1 - What's Your Story Type?
Identify your market
- Find your market before you start to write
- DOWNLOAD - Some Short Story Markets
- Analysing the short story markets
- Other ways to get your stories published
- DOWNLOAD - Competition Tips
Short story elements
- Where do you get your ideas?
- DOWNLOAD - Cook-up-a-Story
- Creating a great opening
- Structure and plot
- DOWNLOAD - Plot Structure
- DOWNLOAD - Story Plan Worksheet
- Using flashback
- DOWNLOAD - Story 'Gently Does It'
- DOWNLOAD - Story 'Gently Does It' with author comments
- Viewpoint
- Tense
- The essential ingredient: conflict
- Creating characters
- DOWNLOAD - Naming Your Characters
- Settings and description
- DOWNLOAD - Using the Five Senses
- Writing dialogue
- Bringing it to an end
- DOWNLOAD - The Big Freeze
- Mapping The Big Freeze to the plot diagram
Editing
- Kill your darlings!
- DOWNLOAD - Editing Exercise Part A
- DOWNLOAD - Editing Exercise Part B
- Another editing exercise
- An extra editing exercise
- Proofreading your work
- DOWNLOAD - Proofreading Tips
Submitting your story
- How to submit your story
- DOWNLOAD - Cover Sheet
- DOWNLOAD - Cover Sheet including a pen name
- DOWNLOAD - Manuscript example
- Manuscript example including dialogue
- DOWNLOAD - Example of a Covering Letter
- Dealing with rejection
Wrap up
- Keeping writer’s block at bay
- Write, write, write
- 12-Step Action Plan
- Test your knowledge
Bonus Section
- Bonus lecture