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By the end of these courses you will:
- Understand the difference between archetypes and stereotypes
- Know how to build characters through observation
- Understand the importance of point-of-view
- Be able to use first, second and third person perspectives
- Be able to combine character and situations to generate a plot
- Know how to use your setting to reflect and reveal your characters
- Know how to use the mundane to your advantage
- Understand the difference between world building and exposition
- Know what separates after the catastrophe from enclosed habitats
- Get why verisimilitude is key to any science fiction story
- Appreciate the relationship between plot and character
- Know what forms a classic story structure
- Be able to write an impactful opening
- Know how to ratchet up the drama
- Be able to recite the Ten Commandments of Writing
- Understand how point of view affects your plot
- See how dialogue and subtext can add depth to your plot
- Understand the importance of rewriting
- Know how to end your story
Ian Nettleton has a doctorate in Creative & Critical Writing from UEA (2003). His first novel, The Last Migration, set in the Australian outback, was runner-up for both the 2014 Bath Novel Award prize for literature and the inaugural Bridport Prize/Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award. He has also worked for the BBC as a writer and presenter, critiqued novels for The Literary Consultancy and published short fiction in a number of anthologies.