|
所在平台: Udemy |
课程主页: https://www.udemy.com/course/high-concept-query-letters-fiction-writing-pitch-novels/
课程评论：没有评论
课程名称：小说与查询信的写作：创作畅销小说 课程概述： 本课程旨在帮助您通过撰写高概念小说的精彩查询信，获得代理人的关注。我们将探讨何为高概念小说，并帮助您理解代理人和出版商为何热衷于此类作品。同时，您将进行头脑风暴，创造出自己的高概念创意，提升您的普通构思，转变为吸引眼球的杰出概念。 本课程的重点不在于情节发展，而是在于如何有效地推介您的书籍，构建一个可以销售的前提和引人入胜的钩子。在当今竞争激烈的市场环境中，一个出色的构思是成功的关键。我们将通过生动的比喻来展示如何在众多“灰色摊位”中脱颖而出，吸引读者的关注。 此外，您还将学习如何撰写有效的查询信，促使代理人对您的手稿产生兴趣。您不必试图在查询信中包含整本书的内容，只需写出简洁的摘要，激发代理人的好奇心。课程中还将涵盖短Hooks的写作，这部分内容承接自先前的情节课程，同时也是撰写查询信所必需的。 总之，本课程将为您提供撰写优秀查询信所需的一切：高概念小说的构思、简短的推介语、友好的语气以及健康快乐的形象，确保您成为代理人乐于合作的人选。
HIGH CONCEPT If you want to snag an agent you will be miles ahead of others if you will write a great query letter for a high concept novel. In this course we will brainstorm high concepts and we will take the mystery out of writing query letters. This will help you understand what a high concept novel is and why agents and publishers are looking for them. And then it will help you to brainstorm your own high concept ideas. It will force you to stretch until you've made your humdrum concept into a high-flying concept that will grab attention from the pitch. This is not a course on plotting. It is a course on pitching. It is a course that will help you with the premise of you book, not the plot. It comes before the plotting. You have to come up with a salable premise first and a killer hook. If you don't have those it doesn't matter how great your plot is-you'll have a hard time selling your book in today's busy, noisy, crowded marketplace. Think of it like this: The marketplace is full of a vendors, all standing in the booths. They all have flapping white canvas over their tables and they all have grey boxes full of their wares. In those boxes are some lovely treasure. But which booth do you approach? You can't see the treasures-they all are kind of hidden away in their grey boxes. But there in the middle of all the white, flapping canvas, there is one table under a bright yellow canvas covering. The table is covered in vibrant purple cloth and the boxes that hold the wares are lime green and orange and shiny red. The treasures in the boxes may not be better than the treasures in the grey boxes on the other tables. But which table do you go to first? And which treasures do you pick up? And which treasures do you buy? This is why you need a high concept plot that can be pitched with pizzazz. Because the marketplace is full of grey tables and white flapping canvas. QUERY LETTERS It does little good to write high concept books if you can't write an effective query letter.In this course you will learn to write query letters that will make the agents ask to read the manuscript. The main thing? You don't need to try so hard. You don't need to put the whole book into the query letter. Just a short summary. Just enough to make the agent want more. We look at short hooks in this course, too-this section is repeated from my plot course. We look at them here because they are needed for the query letters. In short, this course tells you all you need to write a great query letter: you need a high concept novel, a short pitch for that novel, the ability to be friendly without being stalker-ish, and to come across as healthy and happy and a person agents would enjoy working with.
