Learn how the author of The Handmaid’s Tale crafts vivid prose and hooks readers with her timeless approach to storytelling.
Called the “Prophet of Dystopia,” Margaret Atwood is one of the most influential literary voices of our generation. In her first-ever online writing class, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale teaches how she crafts compelling stories, from historical to speculative fiction, that remain timeless and relevant. Explore Margaret’s creative process for developing ideas into novels with strong structures and nuanced characters.
In her Masterclass, you'd learn lessons such as;
- Introduction
- Getting Started as a Writer
- Story and Plot
- Structuring Your Novel: Layered Narratives and Other Variations
- Point of View Case Studies
- Bringing Characters to Life Through Detail
- Creating Compelling Characters
- Writing Through Roadblocks
- Crafting Dialogue
- Revealing the World Through Sensory Imagery
- Prose Style and Texture
- Working With Time in Fiction
- The Door to Your Book: The Importance of the First Five Pages
- Writing the Middle and Ending
- Revision: Seeing Your Work Anew
- The Novel and the Shifting Sands of Genre
- Speculative Fiction
- Speculative Fiction Case Study: The Handmaid’s Tale
- Research and Historical Accuracy
- The Writer’s Path
- The Business of Being a Writer
- Parting Words
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