Story-telling Techniques
Keep the readers engrossed in your story
Updated on Sep, 2023
Language - English
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
Curriculum
Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course
Introduction
1 Lectures
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Introduction
01:13
01:13
Point of view
1 Lectures
Stimulus and reaction
1 Lectures
Show-don't-tell
1 Lectures
Foreshadowing
1 Lectures
Exposition and dialog
1 Lectures
Description
1 Lectures
World building
1 Lectures
Insightful issues
1 Lectures
Writing voice
1 Lectures
Instructor Details
Hank Quense
Valuable content at reasonable pricesAward-winning author Hank Quense lives in Bergenfield, NJ with his wife Pat. They have two daughters and five grandchildren. He writes humorous fantasy and scifi stories. On occasion, he also writes an article on fiction writing or book marketing but says that writing nonfiction is like work while writing fiction is fun. He refuses to write serious genre fiction saying there is enough of that on the front page of any daily newspaper and on the evening TV news.
Presently, Hank has 23 published books, both fiction and nonfiction. He’s had over 50 short stories published and dozens of articles
He and his wife, Pat, usually vacation in another galaxy or parallel universe. They also time travel occasionally when Hank is searching for new story ideas.
Besides writing novels, Hank lectures on fiction writing, publishing and book marketing. Since his lectures are geographically restricted to Northern New Jersey, Hank converted his lectures to online video courses that can be watched from anywhere.
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