Elements of Story: Introduction to Narrative Structure

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Stories and storytelling surround us. They have existed since pre-history and continue to fill an essential place in our lives. What goes into telling a story? This is a beginning creative writing course that focuses on igniting the sparks for ideas and shaping ideas into a story. We will emphasize the hands-on exploration of sources for inspiration, idea-formation, building ideas, work-shopping and refining them to form them into a script. We will study the fundamentals of story, structure, character development, genre, building scenes, dialogue, and how to utilize them to write a script for media output including the screen, a podcast, and the stage. 001546