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Fiction 140: Short Story Workshop - Linear

• Average Time Commitment per Week: 3 to 4 hours per week



• Time to Complete Course: 6 weeks



• Difficulty (1-5): 3



• Course Description: To write a short story, we only need to a place to start and a direction in which to move. Students will write a short story from start to finish with writing exercises that cover the planning stage, character shaping and the construction of the short story in five basic steps.



• Required Online Readings:
  
  • Writers' Village University Workshop Guidelines
  • Show or Tell: Which is Better?
  
  
  
      Optional
  • Character Profile Worksheet
  
  
  
• Lessons:
  
  
  • Lesson 1: Planning a Short Story in 5 Steps
  • Lesson 2: The Characters and Events
  • Lesson 3: Constructing the Story - 3500 - 5000 words
  • Lesson 4: Critique Week
  • Lesson 5: Revising the Story - 2500 - 3000 words
  • Lesson 6: Final Stories Reviewed
  
  
  
• Classroom A


• Classroom B


• Receive lessons by email (Just send us a blank message.)

Facilitated by: Peer Group