Master Class: R.L. Stine Teaches Writing for Young Audiences
Mike Sprague
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Are you a fan of Goosebumps and Fear Street author R.L. Stine? Would you like the chance to learn how to write for younger audiences from the man himself? Well, then you’re in luck as Stine has a new “Master Class“ available right now.
But it’s gonna cost you…
Yes, Stine breaks down his step-by-step process for writing horror that thrills kids and teens over the course of 28 lessons, where he will teach you how to generate ideas, outline a plot, and hook young readers from the first page. But it costs $90 for the full online video class. Is it worth it? Let’s find out more below.
“The class is about how not to be scared to write,” Stine says. “Writing doesn’t have to be scary, it can be just fun. It’s all about how to take the scares out, how to go about getting ideas, how to never have writer’s block — people worry about that.”
“I do a chapter-by-chapter outline for every book that I write,” he continues. “I really believe in outlines. If you have an outline, you can’t get stuck. You know where you’re going, you know where the ending is. I was talking to high school kids, and this one girl said she always gets bogged down in the middle. So I said write the ending first, and she gasped, she was shocked.”
And if you yourself are a bit shocked by Stine’s candid nature on writing, wait for this next bit Stine shared with EW.
“I always hate when people go to a school and they talk to kids about writing and they say, ‘Write what you know, write your passion, write from your heart.’ That just means those kids will never write again,” Stine tells the site. “Because what does that mean? That doesn’t mean anything! I’ve written over 330 books — not one of them came from my heart. Not one! They were all written for an audience, they were written to entertain. That’s one thing I want to get across. But the main thing is, I just want to say if you do these things, don’t listen to people who say that writing is hard work! It’s not hard work, don’t listen to them.”
What do you make of Stine’s comments regarding writing? Are you interested in taking the course? Let us know in the comments below or on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram!
Take R.L. Stine’s “Master Class” for $90 HERE.
Course Rundown:
Take the fear out of writing. Award-winning novelist R.L. Stine wrote jokes and funny stories for 20 years before he switched gears and became a horror-writing legend. Since then, the author of the Goosebumps and Fear Street series has sold more than 400 million copies. In his first-ever online class, Bob takes the fear out of fiction writing. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, you’ll learn new ways to conquer writer’s block, develop plots, and build nail-biting suspense that will thrill young readers.
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