Great courses (DVD)

Course Number 2533

Improve your writing skills and you love of the craft with secrets of the trade from a best-selling, award-winning author

James Scott Bell

DVDs

Disc 1.

Tell me a story -- Anatomy of a best seller -- Developing ideas -- LOCK system: a foundation for your novel -- Structuring your novel -- Act I: the disturbance.

Disc 2.

Act II: the arena of conflict -- Act III and resolution -- Jump-off-the-page characters -- Bringing characters to life -- Point of view -- Essentials of dazzling dialogue.

Disc 3.

Tools for talk -- Voice and style -- Make a scene -- Subplots and parallel plots -- Deepening the reader's emotional experience -- First pages that grab the reader.

Disc 4.

Revising your novel -- Blunders and baloney -- Getting published -- Self-publishing option -- Marketing your work -- Conquering the mental game of writing