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 to Avoid
• 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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