Creative Writing Fact Or Fiction Beginners Short Course
Course description
How do we transform experience and imagination into compelling prose? These eight-week courses are designed to develop your creative skills and confidence to write. Here is an opportunity to explore your powers of expression in a critical but supportive environment. Weekly assignments and group discussions will help you to refine your craft, strengthen your narrative voice and understand your audience. Personal tuition and advice will address the writing process, from getting started to getting published. And all the stories in between.
Course Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will:
- Interrogate and practise narrative tools, techniques and styles
- Build and edit a collection of short creative writing pieces
- Find inspiration in the creative approaches of others
- Benefit from critical and supportive feedback
Level: Although it is better suited to beginners, all levels of previous experience are welcome.
Entry requirements: A good understanding of spoken English.
Clear, easy to understand lessons:
- Our tutors will explain things in easy to understand, accessible English. If they need to use any special terminology, they will make sure they explain what they mean.
- New methods will be shown to students through live demonstrations, in a way that’s crystal clear and easy to understand.
Experience life on campus:
- Study at Chelsea college of Arts one of London’s most prestigious art and design colleges
- Network and share ideas with students from across the globe
- Access the technology and materials relevant to your discipline
- Ask questions of your tutor in real time
- Receive feedback and critique on your assignments
- Experience the many sights of London on your down time
A certificate of completion and a digital badge:
- You've put the work in so we want to make sure you have something to show for it!
- As long as you attend a minimum of 80% of your classes, we will provide you with a certificate of attendance.
- We always recommend you attend all of the classes so that you get the most out of the experience!
- Certificates and digital badges are great to compliment your cv.
Available dates
Details
This course is about creativity and storytelling, fiction or non-fiction. Each session is a practical workshop where you can expect lively discussion and debate, in-class readings of written assignments, and on-the-spot feedback. These activities require an assured level of spoken English and aural comprehension, as well as confident written English. We will explore creative concepts, nuances of meaning, intention and interpretation, literary styles and narrative techniques. We will not address issues of grammar, unless key to the storytelling (This is not an English language course). After every workshop, the tutor will send reading materials and assignments for each student to work through for the following week.
Materials
Please bring to the first session:
- Something to write with
- Something to write on
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