A free training course for fiction writers!
Create a new short story, the easiest story you will ever write, in the popular fiction-writing course that's been turned into an email sequence: a series of six emails, two a week, guiding you through the creation of a completely new story.
A framework for the plot will be provided. Participants will provide the setting and the protagonist. Each part of the series will take about ten to fifteen minutes to write.
Here's how to works:
Firstly, each email message contains a quick technique for training yourself in the arts of fiction (plot, setting, narration and so on).
Secondly, the series guides you (step by step) through the process of planning and writing out a short story.
By the end of the sixth email, you will have done all the hard work for a completely new tale.
The best part of the process: this new story will arise out of your specific situation, your environment and location, and your own voice.
If you do sign up, and find that the course is not for you, you can unsubscribe at any time.
Reviews:
Sylvia: "Right now, what I like best is that this step-by-step building-block approach forces me think about each essential element of a story and how they naturally build upon one another."
Osvaldo: "I just want to say thank you for taking the time to come up with these emails. Because of it I’m writing."
Question: What are the genres?
Wallace: That's a great question! For me, I think the genre is flexible, depending on the writer, but the series probably works best with urban fantasy, speculative fiction, magic realism, horror, or (literary) character-based stories. This is just because it's about a real person, who lives where you live, but who gets help from a weird or taboo source. So probably not hard sci fi, space opera, or fantasy -- one parameter is that we set the story in the present day...
Question: What is the premise?
Wallace: A character with a problem, who has just suffered a major setback or defeat, visits a strange place. This strange place is a location in her local area that has always seemed mysterious, magical, taboo, or risky. However, in that strange place, to her surprise, she receives an offer of help. The people or objects of the strange place want to help her, and when she returns to her regular life, she immediately achieves a stunning success.
At last, she seems on the verge of achieving her ambition. Her friends are amazed. And for a while, everything seems like it is going to work out, but then...
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