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CF-SS301002AS: How to Write a Short Story

By Anita Saran

Outline

The Short Story Writing Course by Anita Saran offers an in-depth understanding of the craft of Short Story Writing and guidance and professional feedback to creative writers.

Length of the Course

This is a one- time download, self study course.

10 weeks offline

Questions/Evaluation Exercises

Self assessment questions at the end of the chapters and assignments at the end of each chapter which will be evaluated by the course instructor.

E-mail Queries

The writer/instructor will respond to email queries if any right away and send in the evaluation of the given assignments through email within six working days from the date of submission.

About the course instructor

Anita Saran is the published author of the short story, ‘City of Victory’ broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004; a collection of short stories - ‘Dolphin Girl and Other Stories’ published by Har Anand in 1997, ‘Aditya, the Underwater Boy’ -- a novella which won an award in the Nehru Children’s Book Trust national competition, and was published by them in 1996; her first novel, the funny fantasy ‘Circe’, published as an e-book in 2001 by Electric Umbrella, and which will be published again as e-book as well as paperback by Mojocastle Press. Her short story, 'The Enlightened Robot’, appears in the online literary journal, Cezanne’s Carrot. Her audio short story ‘Panic ‘is available for download from Sniplits.com Many of her stories, poems and articles have been published in the leading newspapers of Karnataka.

List of Chapters in this course

Lesson 1 - Beginnings and Endings – How to Begin and end your story
Lesson 2 - Foreshadowing and Tension
Lesson 3 - Conflict
Lesson 4 - Sound
Lesson 5 - Dialogue
Lesson 6 - Point of View
Lesson 7 -  Characterisation
Lesson 8 -  Analysis
Lesson 9 -  Common Faults

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