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Story-telling Techniques

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Story-telling Techniques

Keep the readers engrossed in your story

updated on icon Updated on Jun, 2025

language icon Language - English

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English [CC]

category icon Personal Development,Career Development,

Lectures -10

Resources -9

Duration -37 mins

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Course Description

No matter how great the characters are and how involved the plot and the subplots are, if the story-telling doesn’t hold the reader’s interest, the story will be.a failure.

Hank Quense is the author of a number of highly regarded novels and often writes and lectures on fiction writing techniques. His non-fiction book Creating Stories has been praised by novices and published authors alike.

In this course, Quense shows the student how to effectively use story-telling techniques to increase the reader’s interest. These techniques include:

  • Using show-don’t-tell to maximize the reader’s enjoyment

  • How to decide whether to use exposition or dialog?

  • Effectively use multiple point of view characters.

  • How to use stimulus and reactions correctly

  • Why you need a writing voice and how to develop one.

  • How to avoid the pitfalls of world-building

  • Foreshadowing isn’t just for objects. Learn how to use it in the development of your characters

Enroll in this course now to improve your critically important story-telling skills. These skills will immediately improve your stories.

Goals

  • Learn how to effectively use these techniques to better hold the readers' interest in your story.

Prerequisites

  • There are no prerequisites required for this course
Story-telling Techniques

Curriculum

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Introduction

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Point of view

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Stimulus and reaction

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Show-don't-tell

1 Lectures
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Foreshadowing

1 Lectures
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Exposition and dialog

1 Lectures
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Description

1 Lectures
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World building

1 Lectures
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Insightful issues

1 Lectures
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Writing voice

1 Lectures
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Hank Quense

Hank Quense

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