Course Offerings

What's the single biggest difference between professional authors and novices? Professionals know how to structure novels and stories for maximum dramatic effect. This course helps you develop the same story structuring skills the pros use. You'll understand how your passion, theme, premise, and characters help you create the structure of your story, and you'll discover how viewpoint, dialogue, pacing, and many other techniques are used to build scenes and move your story from beginning to end.

Course Objectives

Understand how your passion, theme, premise, and characters help you create the structure of your story.

Discover how viewpoint, dialogue, pacing, and many other techniques are used to build scenes and move your story from beginning to end.

Outline of Instruction

Lesson 1 - Story Structure

Lesson 2 - The Dramatic Elements

Lesson 3 - Character

Lesson 4 - Act 1: Hook, Backstory, and Trigger

Lesson 5 - Act 2: Crisis, Struggle, and Epiphany

Lesson 6 - Act 3: Plan, Climax, and Ending

Lesson 7 - The Story Idea

Lesson 8 - The Story Outline

Lesson 9 - The Long Form

Lesson 10 - Plan Like a Pro

Lesson 11 - Plot Like a Pro

Lesson 12 - Write Fiction Like a Pro

Contact Hours

24

CEUs

1

Industry Standard, State or National Certification

Certification

None

Website

None

Certification Learning Outcomes/Requirements

CE or CU Articulation

No

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites to take this course.

Learning Supplies Needed

Hardware Requirements:
This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac, or Chromebook.

Software Requirements:
PC: Windows 8 or later.
Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:
Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

Clinical Site/Special Facilities

None

Requirements for Successful Completion

90% attendance
• Students must successfully pass 10 quizzes with a minimum grade of 70% by the second quiz attempt.
• If all quizzes are not passed with 70 or better by the second attempt, the final exam score must be 70% or higher on the first attempt for successful completion.
• The Final Exam must be taken by the Wake Tech course end date

Accreditation/Special Approval Requirements

N/A

Intended Audience

The course is intended for aspiring fiction authors.

Specific Industry or Business Support Needs

N/A

Wake County Need for Industry Positions

N/A

Industry or Job Titles Related to Training Outcomes for Employment

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Course Contact Information

Non-Credit Online Learning http://ceonline.waketech.edu
919-532-5847
[email protected]