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Not sure if it counts as a course but Joyce Carol Oates's MasterClass on writing short fiction. If you can write short, you can write long. If you can write fic
by muzani 3y ago
Not sure if it counts as a course but Joyce Carol Oates's MasterClass on writing short fiction. If you can write short, you can write long. If you can write fiction, you can write anything.
Tap into yourself to find some idea as a core. Just write about it, two minutes. No more than two pages. Look at it from different perspectives. Try different forms.
It was surprising to be able to use it for work to get motivation. Write a monologue from the perspective of a user. Or as a PM. QA. Engineer. Sales. A good monologue goes through an arc of emotions, from frustrated to angry, from anxious to sad, bored to content. Is it empathy? It's motivating, at least.