Preferred learners
- Canada
- Academic experience or paid work
Categories
Skills
Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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We are looking for students to help us design, develop, and plot exciting fiction stories.
Support for students will include:
- Weekly mentoring with a developmental editor
- Training in the use of our collaborative writing software
- Guidance in the mechanics of story-telling and plot development
Students will be involved in:
- Workshopping and developing the plot of a story from start to finish
- Taking into account the needs of popular or genre fiction in today's market
- Working within a defined and disciplined structure to plot the book
- Meeting weekly deadlines and attending weekly editor meetings remotely
- Storyboarding or plotting out the action of a story in bullet point form
- Expanding on bullet point notes to begin the process of turning a plot or an outline into a finished book
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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This project will take place over eight weeks, during the course of which the student will deliver the following assets:
- A fully developed and cohesive story outline
- Ten scene concepts per week
- A scene concept consists of a description of the scene in bullet point format
- A final report to be presented to the employer on the state of the outline and the next steps going forward
- What is the main goal for this project?
-
We are looking for students to help us design, develop, and plot exciting fiction stories.
Support for students will include:
- Weekly mentoring with a developmental editor
- Training in the use of our collaborative writing software
- Guidance in the mechanics of story-telling and plot development
Students will be involved in:
- Workshopping and developing the plot of a story from start to finish
- Taking into account the needs of popular or genre fiction in today's market
- Working within a defined and disciplined structure to plot the book
- Meeting weekly deadlines and attending weekly editor meetings remotely
- Storyboarding or plotting out the action of a story in bullet point form
- Expanding on bullet point notes to begin the process of turning a plot or an outline into a finished book
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
-
This project will take place over eight weeks, during the course of which the student will deliver the following assets:
- A fully developed and cohesive story outline
- Ten scene concepts per week
- A scene concept consists of a description of the scene in bullet point format
- A final report to be presented to the employer on the state of the outline and the next steps going forward
- How will you support learners in completing the project?
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We will provide weekly mentoring and editor feedback sessions to students via Zoom.
About the company
- https://www.fictionagency.ca/
- 2 - 10 employees
- Publishing & printing
The Fiction Agency is a boutique creative writing studio based in Elora, Ontario. We develop exciting and engaging fiction series for our clients and work with the most talented genre fiction writers in Canada.
Through our world-class author mentoring and coaching programs, we take pride in training talented young writers who wish to go on to lucrative careers as writers of popular fiction.
We currently focus on the Mystery, Thriller, and Romance genres.