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Barbara Sachs Sloan
Courses: How to Write Fiction
Right now, Barbara is not offering any general courses. However, the sites listed below are a good place to start if you want to learn about writing fiction and related components, such as agent query letters. Also see her recommended reading on the Books page.
- Agent Query How To and Searchable Database
- Anatomy of a Blockbuster
- Brief and Frightening Tips from George Saunders
- Character, plot, point of view, setting and theme construction
- Dialogue Basics
- High Concept Writing
- Jungian Novel Writing
- Lars Eighner's Novel-writing Course
- Literary Devices
- Literary Forms and Techniques
- Manuscript Guidelines
- Mistakes in Writing
- Representing Consciousness
- Screenwriting Guidelines - Cannell
- Screenwriting Guidelines - Siegel
- Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
- What Publishers Want Today
- Writing Advice from a Book Editor
- Writing Lessons free from Orson Scott Card
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