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所在平台: Udemy |
课程主页: https://www.udemy.com/course/writing-for-a-living-the-query/
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课程名称：以写作为生：查询与摘要 课程概述：本课程深入探讨了在向潜在买家展示书籍、文章、创意或自我的技巧与策略。它的核心是专业写作生涯中的一个标准部分——查询（Query）。查询是针对编辑、制片人或代理人的一封简短信件（1-2页），旨在激发他们对作者作品的兴趣，以便他们愿意阅读完整的项目。本课程包括十二个视频讲座，讲授如何撰写查询，由作者斯特凡·佩特鲁查教授，他在小说和漫画小说领域拥有二十年的丰富经验。视频讲座时间从两分钟到十二分钟不等，总时长接近两小时，分为三个部分： 1. 故事基础：专注于内容这一最具挑战性的组成部分，作者必须以简洁而吸引人的方式推销作品的核心内容，通过关注故事这一人类沟通的基本单元，帮助学员迅速理解什么有效、什么无效。 2. 查询基础：描述查询的演变，定义并探讨其五个基本组成部分：内容、市场、个人简介、可用性与项目状态。此部分重点讲解市场营销，教导学员了解买家的需求，并提供解决方案。 3. 创建摘要：探讨摘要在不同媒体（电影、电视、出版）的演变，以及这些背景对作者的影响。然后，本课程提供了具体的策略，帮助学员凝练故事构思，这一过程也能有效地生成内容。最后一讲集中于撰写摘要时的最大障碍：冗余。 课程还提供一本免费PDF版本的书籍《以写作为生》。
This course is a nuts-and-bolts examination of the strategies and skills needed to present your books, articles, ideas, and/or yourself in a compelling and competitive manner to potential buyers. It centers on a standard part of any professional writing career, the Query.Basically, the Query is a short letter (1-2 pages) addressed to an editor, producer, or agent that tries to get them interested enough in an author's work to read the entire project.The course consists of twelve video lectures detailing how to create Queries, taught by author Stefan Petrucha based on his two decades of experience in novels and graphic novels. Ranging from two to 12 minutes, they run just under two hours and are presented in three sections:Story BasicsQuery BasicsCreating Summaries.Story Basics hones in on the most challenging component, Content, where the professional author must pitch the core of their work in a brief, yet captivating manner. By focusing on Story as the basic unit of human communication, students will be able to quickly understand what does and doesn't work.Query Basics describes how the Query developed, then defines and explores its five essential components: Content, Market, Bio, Availability and Project Status. A focus on marketing teaches students what buyers want, and how to give it to them.Creating Summaries explores how summaries evolved in different media (film, tv, publishing) and how that context effects the working writer. It then presents specific strategies for condensing story ideas, a process that can also become an effective way to reliably generate content. A final lecture concentrates on the biggest obstacle not only to creating summaries, but to good writing in general: Redundancy.A free PDF of the book, Writing for a Living is also included.
