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- Course Scope ..................................................................................... Professor Biography ............................................................................i
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- Starting the Writing Process ..............................................................
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- Building Fictional Worlds through Evocation ....................................
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- How Characters Are Different from People ......................................
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- Fictional Characters, Imagined and Observed .................................
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- Call Me Ishmael—Introducing a Character.......................................
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- Characters—Round and Flat, Major and Minor ................................
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- The Mechanics of Writing Dialogue ..................................................
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- Integrating Dialogue into a Narrative ................................................
- LECTURE
- And Then—Turning a Story into a Plot .............................................
- LECTURE
- Plotting with the Freytag Pyramid .....................................................
- LECTURE Table of Contents
- Adding Complexity to Plots...............................................................
- LECTURE
- Structuring a Narrative without a Plot ...............................................
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- In the Beginning—How to Start a Plot ..............................................
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- Happily Ever After—How to End a Plot ............................................
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- Seeing through Other Eyes—Point of View ......................................
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- I, Me, Mine—First-Person Point of View .........................................
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- He, She, It—Third-Person Point of View
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- Evoking Setting and Place in Fiction
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- Pacing in Scenes and Narratives ...................................................
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- Building Scenes ..............................................................................
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- Should I Write in Drafts? .................................................................
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- Revision without Tears ....................................................................
- LECTURE
- Approaches to Researching Fiction................................................