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Course Description

Bestselling author Joy Fielding guides you on your quest to write your own bestseller. Grab readers in chapter one and don't let them go. Create stories with themes that touch a common cord.  Fielding's course emphasizes structure and vivid characterization as the secrets to selling your story.

Summer Writing School courses are applicable to the Certificate in Creative Writing.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the difference between “literary” and “commercial” fiction.
  • Analyze what makes a book popular.
  • Understand the basic techniques of writing genre fiction, such as suspense.
  • Learn how to write an outline of your book.
  • Complete an opening chapter.

This course may be applied towards the SCS Certificate(s) in

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