Classic How To Use Tags
How to see and understand and use all the various types of tags in your fiction.
Tags in fiction writing are maybe the most powerful tool an advanced fiction writer uses. Yet early on, writers don’t even know what they are, let alone how to use tags effectively. And when they do use tags, it is accidental.
This workshop will teach you how to use tags to help you not only build scenes and characters, but keep readers in your stories. A very complex topic that is another stage four workshop just like information flow.
This workshop will go through the varied areas and types of tags, how to use them, when not to use tags, and how even to use tags as a plot device.
Character tags, setting tags, plotting tags, mood tags, and so on. All of them are critical to writing fiction. And honestly, once you understand tags (and can even see them) in fiction writing, the writing becomes easier. They are like magic shortcuts in so many areas.
This workshop will change your writing for the better going forward. Taught very much like the Writing with Depth workshop, this workshop is a game-changer for your writing.
(You should have taken the Depth in Writing workshop before taking this workshop.)
Your Instructor
Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published over two hundred novels and over seven hundred books, and hundreds and hundreds of short stories. He has over thirty million copies of his books in print.
At the moment he produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the cold case mystery series, Cold Poker Gang series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy.
For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com
Course Curriculum
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StartTags, Week #1 Session #1... What are Tags (5:53)
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StartTags, Week #1 Session #2... Why are they so hard to see? (6:06)
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StartTags, Week #1 Session #3... Types for study (6:37)
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StartTags, Week #1 Session #4... More types for study (6:18)
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StartTags, Week #1 Session #5... Notice, don't notice. (6:26)
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StartTags, Assignment #1 (4:05)
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StartTags, Assignment #1 Response (1:07)
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StartTags, Week #2 Session #1... Setting Tags 4 points. (5:17)
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StartTags, Week #2 Session #2... Not all setting is tags. In fact, most isn't. (3:59)
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StartTags, Week #2 Session #3... Character opinion of setting tags (5:35)
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StartTags, Week #2 Session #4... State of Mind of character and setting tags. (7:20)
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StartTags, Week #2 Session #5... How to add them? (6:43)
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StartTags Assignment #2 (6:10)