Course Overview

Explore story elements, character arcs, and plot using an engaging style.

Curriculum:

• ✨ Module 1: Determine your story’s genre and distill your story's plotline.
• ✨ Module 2: Get a big-picture view of Four-Part Story Structure.
• ✨ Module 3: Discover your protagonist’s Internal Goals, External Relationship Character Goals, and potential obstacles and antagonists.
• ✨ Module 4: Identify and illustrate the Landmarks of Zone 1 of your story: Inciting Incident, Call to Action, and First Plot Point and, the Ordinary world.
• ✨ Module 5: Discover the protagonist as an Orphan archetype and being off balance after the Inciting Incident.
• ✨ Module 6: Identify and illustrate the Landmarks of Zone 2 The Response. The Exotic World, 1st Pinch Point, Boulder Scenes, and the Midpoint.
• ✨ Module 7: Discover the protagonist as the Wanderer archetype reacting to how his world and life has changed after the 1st Plot Point.
• ✨ Module 8 : Identify and illustrate the Landmarks of Zone 3: The Period of Grace, 2nd Pinch Point, The Fall, and the 2nd Plot Point.
• ✨ Module 9: Discover the protagonist as a Warrior archetype as the antagonist grows much stronger.
• ✨ Module 10: Identify and illustrate the Landmarks of Zone 4: The Descent, Transformational Moment, The Climax, The Resolution.
• ✨ Module 11: Discover the protagonist as a Martyr archetype, having to sacrifice his fatal flaw in order to meet the challenge of the Climax to reach the Resolution.

Your Instructors

Lisa Miller

Lisa Miller is a craft specialist who utilizes psychology and Enneagram tools to help writers create multi-layered character casts and develop strong daily writing habits.

Melissa Borg

Melissa Borg is an engineer by degree, a project wrangler by trade, and a storyteller by obsession. She brings practical tips, creative sparks, and the occasional sarcastic aside to every writing class.