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
With over twenty-three million copies of his books in print, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith now brings you original fiction every month for the past three years in his own magazine, Smith’s Monthly.
Dean wrote over twenty-five original Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, plus Spider-Man, X-Men, Iron Man novels, and others. He wrote many gaming novels including Final Fantasy.
He wrote novels and stories under almost fifty pen names and did scripts for Hollywood as well as being an editor for various magazines. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife, writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch. You can follow his writing life 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)