Beginners Creative Writing Course (6 Weeks)
With Kerry Hadley-Pryce. Starting 18/08/2021Price: $230
Start Date: 18th August 2021 – 2 places remaining
Our beginners courses are in huge demand and are filling up very quickly, so we recommend booking early to avoid disappointment.
Our one-to-one Online Beginners Creative Writing Course is suitable for complete beginners and no writing experience is required. It’s also suitable if you haven’t written anything for a while and if you’d like to get back into a writing routine.
You will be given weekly notes and assignments to help you. Your tutor will read every assignment and will provide written feedback.
Module 1: The Creative Process
We’ll learn how to lose our inner perfectionist and practise some techniques to free up our writing muscles.
Module 2: Character Creation
How might you find and develop your characters? We’ll look at a variety of approaches to this.
Module 3: Showing and Telling
‘Show, don’t tell’. Let’s look at what this means in your writing, and let’s experiment with both.
Module 4: Setting
We’ll explore the effect of setting and its interaction with emotion, character and plot.
Module 5: Point of View
Whose story is this? This week, let’s look at the range of possibilities there are, and how this can strengthen your confidence as a writer and help you find your voice.
Module 6: Structure
In this, the final week, we’ll examine how narrative can be arranged to create tension and keep your reader reading.
Think about the next steps for you and your work. Learn about editing, proofreading and polishing your words. Discover answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about writing, including your own.
To find out more about how the online courses work, or if you have any further queries, you can check out our Frequently Asked Questions or email us at [email protected]
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