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During the Pandemic, I converted my lectures into video classes. Several of them pertain to fiction writing. You can find the list of courses here.

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I have my own Youtube channel here.

Once you get there, you’ll find a number of playlists. One of the playlists is for fiction writing and it has a a number of short videos on various topics.

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Use this spreadsheet to keep track of the features for the cast of characters in your story

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Use this template to create your characters.

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I’ve written a number of articles pertaining to fiction writing. The articles are spread all over the internet, but you can find links to all them here.

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is a book I put together for a class of 7th graders.

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is a small ebook that describes my way of creating a story. Perhaps, you’ll be able to use it. Or you can take part of it to develop your own method

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Books relevant to fiction writing can be find on my Amazon page.

Titles include:

* Creating Stories

* Infographic Guide To Creating Stories

* Infographic Guide TO Mind-mapping A Novel

* Fiction Writing Insights

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SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. It is a popular method to analyze a situation in order to identify ways of improving that situation.

Whenever you start a new endeavor you face a learning curve. When you graduate from college and start a job, there's a learning curve. Enter a trade school and you'll be on a learning curve for the entire term. Want to take up knitting as a hobby? There's a learning curve for that. So too with writing fiction or non-fiction. They have learning curves. Self-publishing a book and book marketing also have learning curves.

This download covers fiction writing.

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If you're one to do stuff on your own, I have quite a few courses for you.

There are several of them at this webpage

There is also a free fiction writing workshop for beginners.

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a complex network or interconnected system.

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Writing fiction is a tough gig. This is especially true for beginners. For them, there is a myriad of processes and elements they have to assimilate. To name a few: developing characters, plotting, scene design and setting, And then there are the story telling techniques such as foreshadowing and show-don't-tell. Dialog? That's like a entire other master class.

To become adept at fiction writing, these newbies have to write and study. The study part is difficult for two reasons. First, there is a lot of stuff to study up on. Second, the internet is loaded with enough material to overwhelm anyone searching on a specific topic. Some of this content is excellent, some of it is not bad and some of it is simply repackaged cliches. As a result, researching any topic is a hit-or-miss proposition.

I've been writing fiction for over 20 years and I've experienced this study dilemma first-hand. I've also written on fiction writing for quite a few years.

To help out those who are trying to master fiction writing, I developed an ecosystem of content built around the topic of fiction writing.

Before getting in to that, let's define an ecosystem: it's a complex network or interconnected system. In that vein, I put together a graphical list of links and downloadable content that is relevant to new fiction writers. It's a mind-map of stuff that newbies can use to study fiction writing. The diagram to the right shows the various areas.