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Story-telling Techniques

person icon Hank Quense

4.3

Story-telling Techniques

Keep the readers engrossed in your story

updated on icon Updated on Apr, 2024

language icon Language - English

person icon Hank Quense

English [CC]

category icon Storytelling,Personal Development,Career Development

Lectures -10

Resources -9

Duration -37 mins

4.3

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Course Description

No matter how great the characters are and how involved the plot and the subplots are, if the story-telling doesn’t hold the reader’s interest, the story will be.a failure.

Hank Quense is the author of a number of highly regarded novels and often writes and lectures on fiction writing techniques. His non-fiction book Creating Stories has been praised by novices and published authors alike.

In this course, Quense shows the student how to effectively use story-telling techniques to increase the reader’s interest. These techniques include:

  • Using show-don’t-tell to maximize the reader’s enjoyment

  • How to decide whether to use exposition or dialog?

  • Effectively use multiple point of view characters.

  • How to use stimulus and reactions correctly

  • Why you need a writing voice and how to develop one.

  • How to avoid the pitfalls of world-building

  • Foreshadowing isn’t just for objects. Learn how to use it in the development of your characters

Enroll in this course now to improve your critically important story-telling skills. These skills will immediately improve your stories.

Goals

What will you learn in this course:

  • Learn how to effectively use these techniques to better hold the readers' interest in your story.

Prerequisites

What are the prerequisites for this course?

  • There are no prerequisites required for this course
Story-telling Techniques

Curriculum

Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course

Introduction
1 Lectures
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Point of view
1 Lectures
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Stimulus and reaction
1 Lectures
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Show-don't-tell
1 Lectures
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Foreshadowing
1 Lectures
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Exposition and dialog
1 Lectures
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Description
1 Lectures
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World building
1 Lectures
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Insightful issues
1 Lectures
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Writing voice
1 Lectures
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Instructor Details

Hank Quense

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