Overview

If you’re going to write, write right. Learn how to turn your story into the stuff that bestsellers are made of.

Course No. 2533

Most people think the way to write a best seller is to have a lot of talent and even more luck. As you will learn, there is a recipe for success, and luck may be the least important ingredient in creating a best seller.

Mr. James Scott Bell—a best-selling writer, winner of multiple awards, and the author of the No. 1 best seller for writers, Plot & Structure—has been teaching the principles of best-selling fiction for over 20 years, principles that apply to any genre or style.

The 24 enlightening lectures of How to Write Best-Selling Fiction provide a comprehensive, eye-opening, and illuminating survey of the entire writing process, as well as a full breakdown of how best-selling authors such as Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Suzanne Collins, Janet Evanovich, and dozens of others have implemented best practices in their own writing.

From fun creative challenges to help you get started with unique plot and character ideas to how to format, package, and promote your finished material, Mr. Bell offers an insightful, intimate, and extraordinarily revealing look at the elements that will elevate a novel to become a best seller.

As an aspiring author, you will gain a wealth of tools that will not only improve your ability to write but will also increase your enjoyment of the craft.

Video Lectures

• Tell Me a Story (31 min)

2. Anatomy of a Best Seller (28 min)

3. Developing Ideas (30 min)

4. The LOCK System: A Foundation for Your Novel (31 min)

• Structuring Your Novel (31 min)

• Act I: The Disturbance (33 min)

• Act II: The Arena of Conflict (30 min)

8. Act III and Resolution (31 min)

9. Jump-off-the-Page Characters (33 min)

• Bringing Characters to Life (31 min)

• Point of View (30 min)

12. The Essentials of Dazzling Dialogue (31 min)

• Tools for Talk (33 min)

14. Voice and Style (34 min)

15. Make a Scene (32 min)

• Subplots and Parallel Plots (31 min)

17. Deepening the Reader’s Emotional Experience (31 min)

• First Pages That Grab the Reader (31 min)

• Revising Your Novel (32 min)

20. Blunders and Baloney (34 min)

21. Getting Published (33 min)

22. The Self-Publishing Option (33 min)

23. Marketing Your Work (32 min)

24. Conquering the Mental Game of Writing (35 min)

25. How to Write Short Stories That Sell (BONUS) (32 min)