Deepen Your Characters, Deepen Your Fiction

About Course

Learn how to create a truly immersive, addictive experience for your readers by creating deeper characters and deeper stories. Topics include creating fully rounded characters, digging into deep POV, enhancing conflict, and deepening your fiction with everything from high-level structure to line editing for flow.

Originally taught on JordanMcCollum.com.

Create deeper, more well-rounded characters
Build compelling growth arcs
Deepen POV
Convey emotion effectively
Establish and escalate stakes, choices and consequences
Enhance conflict for maximum story effect
Utilizing story structure to build in depth to your story
Line edit your story for immersion

Course Content

Week 1: Deepening characters
Create deeper characters from start to finish by developing your character fully and helping them to grow and change.

Character creation
Character arcs: Backstory leading to growth
Assignment 1

Week 2: Bringing your readers deeper into your characters
This week we'll dig deep into telling the story from your character's point of view and conveying powerful emotions to the reader.

Week 3: Deepening your story through your characters’ actions
With our characters and readers onboard, we need to give them fully fledged, engaging scenes to keep the story going. Stakes, choices and consequences and conflict are two important ways to do this.

Week 4: Deepening your story
This week, we turn our focus to our stories on a macro and micro level as we delve into using story structure to create a compelling store and line editing to keep our readers immersed in our story.

Bonus materials

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Deepen Your Characters, Deepen Your Fiction

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Week 1: Deepening characters
Create deeper characters from start to finish by developing your character fully and helping them to grow and change.

Character creation

Character arcs: Backstory leading to growth

Assignment 1

Week 2: Bringing your readers deeper into your characters
This week we'll dig deep into telling the story from your character's point of view and conveying powerful emotions to the reader.

Digging Deep into Deep POV

Emotion: Getting readers onboard the emotional roller coaster and taking them for the ride of a lifetime

Week 3: Deepening your story through your characters’ actions
With our characters and readers onboard, we need to give them fully fledged, engaging scenes to keep the story going. Stakes, choices and consequences and conflict are two important ways to do this.

Stakes, Choices & Consequences: Making our characters’ actions count

Enhancing Conflict: Increasing suspense and tension to keep readers riveted

Week 4: Deepening your story
This week, we turn our focus to our stories on a macro and micro level as we delve into using story structure to create a compelling store and line editing to keep our readers immersed in our story.

Structure for Depth: Giving your deep characters a suitable stage

Line Editing for Immersion

Bonus materials

Downloadable bonuses

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Week 1: Deepening characters Create deeper characters from start to finish by developing your character fully and helping them to grow and change.

Character creation

Character arcs: Backstory leading to growth

Assignment 1

Week 2: Bringing your readers deeper into your characters This week we'll dig deep into telling the story from your character's point of view and conveying powerful emotions to the reader.

Digging Deep into Deep POV

Emotion: Getting readers onboard the emotional roller coaster and taking them for the ride of a lifetime

Week 3: Deepening your story through your characters’ actions With our characters and readers onboard, we need to give them fully fledged, engaging scenes to keep the story going. Stakes, choices and consequences and conflict are two important ways to do this.

Stakes, Choices & Consequences: Making our characters’ actions count

Enhancing Conflict: Increasing suspense and tension to keep readers riveted

Week 4: Deepening your story This week, we turn our focus to our stories on a macro and micro level as we delve into using story structure to create a compelling store and line editing to keep our readers immersed in our story.

Structure for Depth: Giving your deep characters a suitable stage

Line Editing for Immersion

Bonus materials

Downloadable bonuses

Student Ratings & Reviews

Week 1: Deepening characters
Create deeper characters from start to finish by developing your character fully and helping them to grow and change.

Week 2: Bringing your readers deeper into your characters
This week we'll dig deep into telling the story from your character's point of view and conveying powerful emotions to the reader.

Week 3: Deepening your story through your characters’ actions
With our characters and readers onboard, we need to give them fully fledged, engaging scenes to keep the story going. Stakes, choices and consequences and conflict are two important ways to do this.

Week 4: Deepening your story
This week, we turn our focus to our stories on a macro and micro level as we delve into using story structure to create a compelling store and line editing to keep our readers immersed in our story.