Getting Started with Short Stories – Ryan O’Neill
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Getting Started with Short Stories by Ryan O’Neill is designed to help writers develop their creative writing skills through short fiction.
A self-paced, on-demand course from award-winning author Ryan O’Neill
Writing short fiction is a great way to develop your creative writing skills.
As well as being an art form in its own right, short fiction can be a laboratory for you to try out new and strange ideas; it can be a training ground in which you can build up your writing muscles before attempting a longer form such as a novel; and it can be a playground, in which you can have lots of fun.
In this three-hour course from award-winning short story author Ryan O’Neill, you will:
- learn the most important elements that make up a short story: setting, characterisation, point of view and plot
- find reading recommendations and writing advice, including how to spark story ideas
- complete a variety of writing exercises to build your short fiction skills
What You’ll Learn In Getting Started with Short Stories?
Module 1: Introduction to Short Stories
- Welcome
- Meet Your Tutor (2:11)
- What is a Short Story?
- Short Story Collections Reading List
Module 2: Setting
- Introduction to Setting
- Exercise 2.1: Country Road Night
- Exercise 2.2: A Different Atmosphere
- Exercise 2.3: Five Objects
- Exercise 2.4: Location, Time & Atmosphere
Module 3: Characterisation
- Introduction to Character
- Direct vs Indirect Characterisation
- Characterisation Example
- Exercise 3.1: Old Italian Woman
- Exercise 3.2: “Bullet” Rewritten
- Exercise 3.3: Do You Have the Time?
Module 4: Point of View
- Introduction to POV
- Exercise 4.1: POV
- Third Person Narration
- Exercise 4.2: Third Person Practice
- Exercise 4.3: Third Person Objective Practice
Module 5: Story Ideas and Plot
- Sparking Ideas
- Exercise 5.1: Take Your Notepad for a Walk
- Exercise 5.2: What Happens Next?
- Exercise 5.3: Life Is Messy
- Exercise 5.4: Experiment!
- Exercise 5.5: Choose a Title
- Plot and Structure
- Plot and Structure Examples
- Exercise 5.6: From Beginning to End
What’s Next?
- Final Words
- Recommended Contemporary Australian Short Story Collections
- Looking for feedback?
- Course Evaluation Survey
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