Introduction to Fiction Writing (Online at your own pace)
Designed specifically for those with little to no fiction writing experience, find your pathway towards your fiction writing goals. Learn the basic building blocks of story: character, plot and setting. Then find out the different forms of fiction writing and some of the genres you might like to explore.
Whether you’ve never written a word of fiction, or haven’t written since high school or college, you will complete the course with the skills you need to get started. Create a new work of fiction, or revive an old one that’s been sitting in your bottom drawer.
Courses are online and asynchronous, meaning students may login to the classroom anytime during the course session, day or night, 24/7. For more information, go to our Online Professional Development Certificates & Courses FAQ
Class details:
Unit 1: The building blocks of story
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Unit 2: Character and conflict
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Unit 3: Setting and plot
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Unit 4: Putting it all together
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Jacqui Lipton
Jacqui Lipton specializes in teaching fiction writing and the business of writing to local and national audiences. She holds an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has taught fiction in libraries and community organizations.
Jacqui works as an editor to the writing community. She is a reader for the Young Adult Review Network, as well as interning at a literary agency in New York. She has completed the fiction writing certificate programs at Stanford Online and the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program, as well as majoring in playwriting in college.
Her short stories and flash fiction have placed in a number of writing contests.
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Starts Mon, Apr 6th 2026
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Price: $195.00
Min Age 18 yr.
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Starts Mon, Jun 1st 2026
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Price: $195.00
Min Age 18 yr.
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Price: $195.00
Min Age 18 yr.
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| Wed, Sep 9th 2026 | 12:01 AM - 11:59 PM | Online |
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