Transform your ideas into a bestselling Young Adult novel with expert guidance from seasoned authors. Learn essential writing techniques and publishing tips to succeed.
This course is all about turning your Young Adult novel idea into a published gem! You’ll dive into the exciting world of YA fiction and get tips straight from the pros to help shape your story, characters, and even your marketing strategy.
Turn your idea into a published novel in today's hottest genre.
Young Adult Fiction is today's top-selling category. This class shows you how to turn you ideas into a bestselling novel or screenplay that will rival Harry Potter, Hunger Games, or Twilight.
Do you have a Young Adult novel idea, but aren't sure where to begin? Have you started a novel, only to get stuck? Or perhaps you've completed a first draft, but want to add the luster of professional writing?
This course is for you! Featuring lively discussions between Young Adult Fiction authors Steve and Dani Alcorn, this engaging class gives you all the tools you need to create a bestseller.
We'll reveal what makes Young Adult novels today's most exciting genre, and show you how to use the techniques of top-selling authors to create your own finished novel. Step by step, you'll learn and practice:
What Makes Great Young Adult Fiction
Planning Your Project
Story Structure
Character Building
Viewpoints that work best for Young Adults
Experiment with Tense
Create a Vibrant Narrative Voice
Build Vivid Settings
Dialogue for Young Adults
Beginnings and Endings
Polishing Your Manuscript
Cover Art that Sells Young Adult Novels
Getting Published
Marketing Your Work
In addition to the video lectures and panel discussions, the course includes extensive supplemental materials, featuring reference lists, exercises, checklists, and handy reference sheets.
Whether this is your first Young Adult novel or you're an experienced author looking for new techniques, Young Adult Fiction Writing Workshop has what you need to get your young adult idea published. Enroll now!
Turn Your Idea Into a Young Adult Novel
Explore What Makes Bestselling Young Adult Fiction
Create a Premise That Sells
7 Lectures
6 Lectures
8 Lectures
Steve Alcorn is a theme park designer, author, teacher, and the founder of Writing Academy. His novels include mysteries, young adult stories, historic fiction and romance. His is also the author of How to Fix Your Novel. Steve has helped more than 30,000 aspiring writers structure their novels, through the online learning programs of 1500 colleges and universities worldwide. Many...
Dani is the author of the Young Adult novel The Last Telepath, and three screenplays: A Quintessence of Dust, a science fiction riff on what would happen if Hamlet met BladerunnerHow to Catch an Englishman, a romantic comedy about moving overseas in search of an eligible bachelorDo No Harm, a drama that explores the ethical choices facing a heart surgeon...
After years of searching, I finally found someone who explains to you exactly how to construct a story from the ground up. Excellent.
I appreciate the way both instructors interact and share their thoughts. Every young adult writer has preferences for reading material and it is not necessarily wrong. It is great to hear both suggestions.
I have just completed Section 4 and found it especially useful to a budding author. I would recommended the course for this section alone.
I’m enjoying the content
Course is structured to flow well through the writing process. Best practices can be adapted for any genre.
I just got into it so I can not give it a solid rating yet but based on the summary of the course and what I have heard so far, it sounds promising.
Very helpful, thank you!
Fue una experiencia excelente. La estructura del curso permite internalizar los conceptos. El formato con dos instructores brinda dinamismo a las presentaciones. Gracias!
It is a bit outdated I suppose. But I think there’s still a long way to go before its over.
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Daittra L.
Very clear instruction. Details of YA current and past books and how books have changed. Lecture is very up to date with statistics and the two speakers keep it going in at a perfect pace.