By Anita Saran
Outline
Learn how to begin a short story, the different techniques to use such as intrigue and drama, how to plot it, and how to end it in a credible manner which echoes the beginning and so completes it in a satisfying way.
Length of the Course
This course has one small chapter that deals with the various ways to begin a short story, how to plot it, as well as how to write a satisfying and believable ending.
The estimated length of the course will be around 2000 words.
Question/Evaluation Exercises
There will be an assignment at the end of the chapter which will be evaluated. There is no separate final test and the score of the assignment will be used to award a rating at the end of the course.
E-mail Queries
Aspirants can also send in their specific queries to the writer of the course via our email address – writers at chillibreeze.com, which can be answered in about 3 days’ time.
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. Circe is also available for sale on Amazon USA.
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.
Anita has recently clinched a contract for her new novella ‘The Choosing’ with Solstice Publishing.
A glimpse at what the course offers:
List of Chapters/Sections in this course
Chapter 1: Beginning and Endings
Chapter 2: Plotting your Story
Beginning and Endings
From the first sentence or paragraph of your story, you should be able to hook the reader and keep him on your line till the last sentence of your story. He must be moved forward to an inevitable and credible outcome.
I find that I spontaneously come up with my first sentence, but this is only after the story idea has been brewing inside my head for a while – a couple of weeks or a month. A born writer will find that he is haunted by his story in the making and even his thoughts as he goes to sleep at night and rises in the morning revolve around his story. And finally when I put pen to paper, I write the complete story in one go. I believe one must get it all down when the creative energy is at its peak – and that is when you write the first sentence down. Once you do that, you are propelled forward to discover for yourself where it will lead. I do not determine the endings of my stories in advance and so, the process of writing is an adventure and an exploration of the vast recesses of my mind.
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Course Certification:
- Go through the instructional material, and mail the completed assignments to writers at chillibreeze.com
- You must take the final test within 1 month of purchase of the course. Extensions may be granted on special request with the approval of course instructor.
- On completion of the course you will be awarded a grade- A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 or C2, with A1 being the highest.
- You will receive your course rating in approximately 7 working days and your course certificate in approximately 10 working days after completing the final test.
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