Learn How to Write a Novel, Join Tom Bromley for a writing master class.
Learn How to Write a Novel
Finish your draft in our 3-month master class. Enroll now for daily lessons, weekly critique, and live events. Your first lesson is free!
In this lively and fun course, author and mentor Steve Alcorn and screenwriter Dani Alcorn, show you how to achieve success. During the past decades they've helped more than 30,000 aspiring writers structure their stories, and many are now in print. You can be next!
Website: https://www.udemy.com/
Categories: Science Fiction
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
$70.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Length:
Self-paced, est. 7.5 hours
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Speculative Fiction
Loft
As our reality becomes more of a dystopia, you may wonder what counts as fantasy anymore. Collapse, resurrection, and everything in between are entirely possible. The absurd has become a part of the everyday, be it a head popping out of a toilet or slugs that change their sex. This class will explore the fantastical, uncanny, scientific/technological, and fiction that otherwise tests the bounds of human reality.
Website: https://loft.org/classes/current-class-list
Categories: Science Fiction
Start date:
August, 2024
Price:
$148.00
Based in Minneapolis
Level: Any
Length:
4 sessions
Class size: Limited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
There are two big take-aways in this course: the strategy for entering and winning writing competitions and awards in general, and a technique for conception and development of a powerful Science Fiction story. By combining the two, you can learn a complete process to win an award for an SF short story...
Website: https://www.udemy.com/
Categories: Science Fiction
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
$45.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Length:
Self-paced, est. 1 hour
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
How to Write Space Opera
Udemy
In these two courses on Science Fiction and Space Opera writing, you'll explore the familiar conventions and tropes of 20th-century SF. Learn how to construct plots, develop characters, create immersive worlds, and weave stories that offer an optimistic vision of the future while ensuring a satisfying reading experience.
Website: https://www.udemy.com/
Categories: Science Fiction
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
$45.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Length:
Self-paced, est. 1 hour
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
The Fiction Workshop: Building Characters
Attic Institute
Find your way into your characters’ motivations, interiority, and relationships in this generative workshop for short story writers and novelists. We’ll create complex characters through in-class writing, discussion of short story and novel excerpts, and reimagining in-progress and new work. Open to all writers.
Website: https://atticinstitute.com/node/2853
Categories: Science Fiction
Start date:
September, 2024
Price:
$275.00
Based in Portland
Level: Any
Length:
4 classes (2.5 hours each)
Class size: Limited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Literary Techniques for Speculative Fiction Workshop
Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers
This class offers a blend of lectures, discussions, and in-class writing exercises, introducing various techniques for your writing. You'll have the opportunity to apply these methods in short fiction, analyze successful pieces to understand the use of these techniques, and discuss the rationale behind the authors' choices.
Website: http://www.kittywumpus.net
Categories: Science Fiction
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
$99.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Developing Video Game Narratives
UCLA Extension
Writing for games requires an understanding of structure that goes beyond linear storytelling. In this course, you will explore the nature of interactive stories by working in different formats (choose your own adventure, virtual novels, the Telltale style, etc.) and writing games that exemplify the fundamental concepts of branching narrative.
Website: https://www.uclaextension.edu/
Categories: Science Fiction
Start date:
September, 2024
Price:
$720.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
12 weeks
Fall Virtual Workshop
Futurescapes
Futurescapes is an intensive, exclusive workshop, offering writers an unparalleled chance to work with top authors and agents in speculative fiction (science fiction, horror, fantasy, paranormal).
Website: https://futurescapes.ink/
Categories: Science Fiction
Start date:
October, 2024
Price:
$398.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
4 full days (October 10-13, 2024)
Class size: Limited
Prerequisites: You may submit any original written work for your application.
How to Write a Novel
Reedsy
Reedsy's course, led by Tom Bromley, is a 101-day program aimed at helping writers finish their first novel draft. It includes daily video masterclasses, a structured approach for drafting, and access to a forum and live webinars for interaction and feedback. The course covers various aspects of novel writing, including preparation, character development, plot skills, and writing techniques.
Website: https://reedsy.com/learning
Categories: Science Fiction
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
$1,249.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Length:
101 days, with daily lessons and exercises
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
