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Creative Writing: Fiction and Narrative Craft for Beginners

A practical, technique-first course in fiction and narrative craft for beginners. You will build real writing skills through exercises, worked examples, and honest feedback frameworks.

Anyone who wants to write fiction but feels unsure where to start or why their drafts are not working yet.

Course content

Desire, Wound, and Contradiction45m
How to Write a Character Who Changes40m
Secondary Characters Who Do Real Work38m
Scene, Sequel, and the Unit of Story45m
The Midpoint Shift and Why Your Story Needs One42m
Endings: How to Close What You Opened43m
Point of View: Choosing Your Narrator48m
Voice: How Your Story Sounds44m
Setting as Character: Place That Does Work40m

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