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Robert Allen

Getting Ideas & Developing Ideas Into Stories SO YOU WANT TO WRITE POETRY?

Analysis for "Integration"  
What Is Theme and what is it good for?  
What is a Plot?  
Plot/Conflict Integration

See below for "What is Conflict?"

 
   
Choosing a Protagonist  
What is "genre"and
who says so?
 
The Outline You Write From  
The Selling Outline  
The Art of Composition  
How to Find the Beginning of a Story  
How to Find the Middle  
How to find the End  
When does a story End?  
What is
Action?
 
How do you
tell What Happens
Next?
 
Sometimes
what happens next is what happened
before this!
Or the Art of the Flashback.
 
What Is Point of View?  
How do you Choose Point of View?  
What is the difference
between Characterization
and
Relationship?
 
What is conflict?  
What is a "conflict line?"  
What is Internal Conflict? (and how to create some)  
What is the difference between Plot and Story?  
Doing Your Research  
Crafting Your World  
SHOW DON'T TELL  
CONTRAST & COMPARE

 

 
Accounting For Taste  
The Editor's Job  
ASSIGNMENTS

for

Course #1

"The Essence of Story"

 


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