Insider's Guide to Writing Space Opera
Writing Successful Space Opera
You want to write science fiction that spans galaxies, but you don't even know where to begin.
And what is space opera exactly.
Writing successful space opera takes certain skills that can be learned, but first you have to know what skills you need to hold readers in your stories. This workshop will help you learn and understand the skills.
This workshop gives you the confidence to tackle the galaxy-spanning project.
Kris and I both write a lot of space opera. We started with Star Trek and have written many different series from there. Kris writes her award-winning Diving into the Wreck series and her also award-winning Retrieval Artist series. I have not only written for many gaming worlds, but I have a space opera series of my own called The Seeders Series.
The most difficult part of space opera is making the world, the massive universe understandable to readers. How to do that will be one focus of this workshop. We will also touch on the nature of series writing, since most space opera takes books to develop fully.
Writing space opera is great fun. If you have been afraid of tackling that large project, this workshop is for you.
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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StartWriting Space Opera Week #1 Session #1... What is it? (5:07)
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StartWriting Space Opera Week #1 Session #2... Human stories (6:20)
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StartWriting Space Opera Week #1 Session #3... Mix of other genres (7:47)
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StartWriting Space Opera Week #1 Session #4... Who is the book about? (4:30)
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StartWriting Space Opera Week #1 Session #5... Depth is critical (6:21)
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StartWriting Space Opera Assignment #1 (2:10)
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StartWriting Space Opera Week #2 Session #1... Openings. Where to start? (6:03)
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StartWriting Space Opera Week #2 Session #2... Character Voice (5:52)
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StartWriting Space Opera Week #2 Session #3... Study other authors. (5:19)
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StartWriting Space Opera Week #2 Session #4... One detail. (5:56)
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StartWriting Space Opera Week #2 Session #5... Focus and over explain. (6:54)
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StartWriting Space Opera Assignment #2 (1:30)