The Craft of Short Fiction with Douglas Smith

Join multi-award-winning writer Douglas Smith as he provides tips on the craft of writing the short story. Topics covered will include crafting characters, choosing the right point-of-view, pros and cons for various POV options, plotting as character decisions, why setting is character, stories with multiple POV characters, handling scene and POV changes, POV and character voice, non-linear plots, writing scenes out of order, opening lines, implied back story, handling information flow, story structures, recommended resources... and more.

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0:00 - Intro
6:00 - Presentation Begins
7:52 - Why I've Resisted Doing a Craft Workshop
9:52 - The Problem with Craft Workshops
11:23 - Your Most Important Decision: Story Structure
14:19 - Where Do You Get Your Story Ideas?
16:19 - Doorways for Story Ideas
19:54 - Developing a Story Idea
30:40 - Knowing Your Characters
35:36 - Selecting a Theme: What is this Story
38:46 - POV & Tense
49:13 - Planning Your Story's Structure
56:50 - Scene Changes
1:04:00 - Linking Symbolism & Framing Devices
1:05:16 - Setting and Scene Transitions
1:10:45 - Finding and Testing Your Openings
1:14:00 - The Obligatory Commercial
1:15:38 - Q&A

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