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How can you overcome your fear of writing, find inspiration and never run out of ideas?
In this first part of the masterclass, Marc Levy teaches you how to overcome writer's block, find inspiration and find out if your idea for a novel is a good one.
Meet Marc Levy
Meet the world's most widely read French writer.
Overcome your fear of writing
In this lesson filmed in public with participants who want to develop their writing project, Marc Levy explains how to overcome your fear of the blank page and structure your ideas.
How do you create and tell a story?
How do you find the time to write when you're busy with work and/or family? How do you overcome writer's loneliness? Marc Levy answers these important questions in this live lesson.
Techniques for finding inspiration and never running out of ideas.
Marc Levy teaches you easy exercises to stimulate your imagination, find ideas and prioritize them.
How do you know if your idea is a good one?
By the end of this lesson, you'll know how to test your story idea, and how to approach it to turn it into a story.
How to structure your narrative and build a story?
Marc Levy's techniques and tricks for getting from the initial idea to a structured story that's interesting for the reader.
How to structure your story and make an outline?
Marc Levy's techniques for structuring your story, making an outline of your story, but also knowing how to detach yourself from it if need be.
Turning your idea into a story.
In this interactive lesson filmed in public, Marc Levy gives you his most valuable tips for writing a story (invented or autobiographical) from an idea.
The best ways to document.
How and when should you research your story? Marc Levy gives precise answers, based on his own experience as a successful writer.
Narrative arches: how to build your story?
Marc Levy teaches you how to balance your story and develop your characters.
How to build characters and write dialogue?
In this chapter, Marc Levy teaches you how to create and develop real, engaging characters, and write natural, spontaneous dialogue.
Creating characters (real and engaging) part 1
In this lesson, Marc Levy explains how to properly describe a character and whether or not you should write character cards.
Creating (real and engaging) characters part 2
Marc Levy gives you a simple exercise to refine your characters' personalities and subtly break away from stereotypes.
Writing dialogue.
How do you write natural, spontaneous dialogue that reflects your characters' personalities? That's what Marc Levy teaches you in this interactive lesson filmed in public.
How to keep the reader on the edge of their seat
Marc Levy's method for creating emotion in readers and drawing them into a stimulating, exciting story.
What makes a story powerful?
Marc Levy's method for airing out your style and creating emotion in the reader.
Tenses.
Should you write in first or third person? Find out in this lesson from Marc Levy, who explains how to choose the right tense for your story.
Write the first 50 pages.
The first 50 pages are the hardest to write. Marc Levy teaches you how to overcome this difficulty and be tolerant with yourself.
Write the middle and end of your novel.
In this lesson, Marc Levy shows you how to keep your story on track and choose the right ending for your novel by preparing the denouement of the plot.
Marc Levy's advice on how to increase your chances of publication.
To be or not to be published. That's the question Marc Levy answers in all sincerity, giving you his own vision and his best advice.
Marc Levy live-edits a text.
During this masterclass, some of the participants offered their texts to Marc Levy. He chose a very representative one and gave his advice on how to improve it and make it more accessible.
How to get published?
Marc Levy's advice on how to choose the right publisher (or self-publishing platform) and increase your chances of publication.
Conclusion.
Marc Levy's final tips for enjoying your novel.
Bonus 1: Behind the scenes of Marc Levy's novels.
Discover how Marc Levy himself writes his novels.
Bonus 1: Behind the scenes of Marc Levy's novels.
Discover how Marc Levy himself writes his novels.
Bonus 2: Resources and tools to improve your writing.
A fascinating interview in which Marc Levy explains his creative process.
Hello,
Thank you very much for this course.
Is it possible just to check the 4th video, it is not accessible for some reason, the message is: “Could not fetch video metadata”.
The video is:
“How can we improve our self-esteem on a daily basis and reveal our true personality?”
Thanks a lot for your effort, thank you!
they have removed that video :( that is why it gives that error.
(forgot to mention that the course is : How can you regain your self-esteem and stop devaluing yourself?”)
Thanks a lot!
thanks for your reply, is there a paypal to support the site?
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