The Short Story & the Storyline

Course Brief Description:

Recently, short stories have become viral due to the fast rhythm of life. Writing short stories has become valuable and comes with — potentially — many prizes. This course is designed to help ambitious writers learn more about short stories, including their styles and features.
Creative writers, editors and publishers can dive into their history, styles, idea generation, character development, language, editing, analyzing and publishing. Through team discussions, practicing and acknowledging the tools and techniques, participants will recognize the challenges faced when publishing stories and nominating them for prestigious and international literature events and learning how to overcome the obstacles faced.
If you’re eager to become a professional short story writer, this course was made for you; it is your path to achieve your dream, become well prepared and empower your confidence.

Course objectives:

• Becoming familiar with modern storytelling styles.
• Discovering participants’ story writing talents while improving and developing them.
• Studying genres of storytelling in depth and acknowledging their types and features. 
• Enabling participants to pursue a career as a writer. 
• Recognizing the challenges faced when publishing and nominating stories in prestigious and international literature events, and nevertheless learning how to overcome them. 

Course outcomes:

• To put together a plan to write a professional story.
• To find the best sources to establish a great story.
• To distinguish the proper ideas, characters and plots to deliver the message of the story.
• To select the suitable language and style for the story.
• To review and evaluate the story in a practical way.
• To write two stories following the course’s steps in preparation for them to be published in magazines, newspapers or books.

Recommended for:
All story lovers, creative writers, editors and publishers