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Outlining and effective planning in creative writing

If you’ve ever wanted to outline and don't understand where to start, or are too scared because outlining a large proeject feels like too much of a large task, this course will help you in that endevour and allow you to use your skills in outlining in a variety of different mediums.

Outlining and effective planning in creative writing

If you’ve ever wanted to outline and don't understand where to start, or are too scared because outlining a large project feels like too much of a large task, this ten week, paid, course will help you in that endeavor. You will learn to use your skills in outlining in a variety of different mediums.
From understanding three different types of outlines to understanding how to deviate from it, and when to follow it, this course will allow you to understand the versatility and using your outlining. You’ll also get the opportunity to make an outline for your own anthology or magazine issue, novel, or short story collection.

What you'll cover 

  • Lesson One: Why should I bother outlining?

    • ​This session will detail why you should bother outlining your work and what the advantages of the outline are. This session will also tell you about the outlining processes explored throughout this course 

  • Lesson Two: The skeleton

    • ​The first outlining method is the most basic and the most manurerable. This session will teach you what this method is, why its useful and help you develop your own skeleton outline for it. 

  • Lesson Three: The insides

    • ​This outlining method will further develop on the skeleton and give you a larger playground to work with and take your outline to new heights. 

  • Lesson Four: The Whole body

    • This is the most distinct outline and therefore the one that is the best for larger narratives. With great power comes great responsibility

  • Lesson Five: Maneuverability with outlines

    • Sometimes the story calls for a deviation, a character makes a move with is better for the story, but not what writers have planned. This session will help you navigate when to deviate and when to stick to your outline and how to become flexible and use it as a guide, not a strict regiment. 

  • Lesson Six: Outlining for collections and shorts

    • Taking these ideas, this session will ensure that people can effectively outine for small collections and also their own personal novel, short poetry, or other types of anthologies. 

  • Lesson Seven: Outlining for issues 

    • This will take the same idea for collections and shorts, and instead apply it to anthologies, which are both seasonal and not. This session wil teach you what to do in either case and help you create your own small anthology

  • Lesson Eight: Outlining worlds

    • This session will ensure that people can effectively outline worlds and their own worldbuildings. This is sometimes one of the hardest things to do, but Erica will walk you through it. 

  • Lesson Nine: Novel notes for outlines

    • Novel notes for outlines can be a tough one to understand and even worse to execute. The idea of turning your novel notes into a fully fledged draft is daunting, but Erica J. Kingdom will walk you through it with ease and elegance, so you’ll attack your next draft with a keen eye and turn those notes into a fully fledged novel outline 

  • Lesson Ten: Outlining for courses and developing these curriculums 

    • Sometimes you might want to make your own course and figure out the world of education. Outlining these things can be hard and sometimes, you need a little guidance. 

  • Lesson Eleven: Outlining for plays and radios

    •  Outlining for stageplays and radios can be considerably different than going from a prose format such as novels. This session will teach you on how to outline for these specific things with an adaptation of the outlines already covered. 

Why The Writers Den? 

There are so many reasons to take a course from The Writers Den. Here are a few of the best: 

  • Lifetime support: if you need anything writing related or any questions, please contact Erica for any writing questions, and you can have free access after becoming part of the graduates program. 

  • A percent offer: if you take one of our courses  and want to do another in six months, we give a 20% discount (appropriate certificate is provided). 

  • A range of industry active instructors: Currently all of the courses are run by Erica, but as the courses expand and change, we will change these to suit the needs of the people who run them. 

  • Constantly updating: If there are any changes to the course content, we will give you these sessions (optionally) for free, or in the event of a significant change in course content, a small fee. 

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