This is not your traditional writing course! Serial online literature is a new and rapidly growing publishing medium. This course explores the features of this digital fiction market, walking authors through the process of planning and writing novels specifically for this format and publishing them on online reading platforms.

We would like to invite students who complete the course to also apply for our paid author boot camp, a three-month novel-writing program in which authors submit chapters daily, receiving detailed feedback from an editor. Learning the skills you need to write a web-novel is just the beginning of a potential career in online literature!

If you are…

· A beginning writer looking for a guide to starting a novel and self-publishing online;

· An experienced author seeking new ways to publish and reach audiences around the world;

· An online fiction fan interested in learning more about the medium and how to write your own novel;

. . . Then this course is for you!

This course covers:

· The features of serial online fiction and its differences from conventional fiction and publishing;

· Starting and planning a story, including classic techniques of character, creation, plotting, worldbuilding, and outlining, with tips on how to translate them to this new medium;

· Publishing your work on an online platform and composing a novel serially through regular updates;

· A step-by-step guide for online novel creation from start to finish!

Instructor Bio

Adam R. Patterson has an undergraduate degree in communication from SUNY at Buffalo and a master’s degree in English from Roehampton University in London, England. While he has worked in film and radio, he focuses most of his time working with new writers and developing story for all mediums. He is currently an English instructor at Bryant & Stratton College, curriculum designer and literature instructor at eGlobal, and freelance editor and ghostwriter for several boutique publishing houses. Over the course of his career he has developed skill sets in story structure, monomyth, top editing, formatting for film and television, as well as education. He is a published poet, nominated BNFF Best Screenplay scriptwriter, and webnovelist.