Duration -
4 Weeks.
Suitable for -
Writers at all stages looking to improve their writing skills, explore their creative process, and understand the craft of storytelling.
What You Will Learn
Storytelling
- Expressing complex thoughts with clarity and persuasiveness.
- Identifying and developing central themes in your writing.
- Crafting characters readers obsess about.
- Using backstory effectively to inform present-day actions.
- Understanding plot structuring, and persuasive storytelling
- Using action and dialogue to reveal character and advance the plot.
- Creating believable and immersive worlds, whether real or imagined.
- Developing consistent rules and logic for your world.
Deconstructing Influences
- In-depth analysis of favorite authors/literary works: Identifying stylistic elements, themes, and techniques that standout.
- Voice exercises: Experimenting with different tones, perspectives, and levels of formality.
Style and Syntax
- Sentence-level control: Understanding rhythm, cadence, and variation.
- Revision techniques: Tightening prose, eliminating unnecessary words, and maximizing impact.
- Articulating voice with confidence and distinction.
- Adapting your voice for different audiences and purposes.
- Genre-specific writing prompts: Practicing voice in different contexts.
- Finding and developing your style.
- Understand POVs
- Analyzing the impact of narrative choice on the reader’s experience.
- Studying different narrative techniques: Stream of consciousness, unreliable narrator, etc.
Revising
- Polishing your work so it needs less editing.
- Identifying and addressing weaknesses in your writing.
The Reader–Writer Relationship
- How successful authors gain their readers’ trust.
- Appeal to readers of many different backgrounds and ages
Short Fiction
Create deeply impactful flash fiction, novellas and short stories from anything and on the spot.
Poetry
Learn how to read and write poems. Understand verse writing techniques and poetic styles.
Implement
Excellently complete one piece of Creative Fiction with supervision and get a full editorial review.
Resources You Get
The Story Planning Guide
Plan and write an outstanding piece from start to finish.
Our Crafters Workbook
Featuring 20 genre specific writing exercises, 10 writing sample case studies breaking down storyline, setting and storytelling elements.
Certificate of Completion
Download accredited certificate so you can prove your skills, boost your resume and advance your career.
You too can write a Classic!
When we think of classics, we think of literary works with time resonance and writers who see the world as an extension of their own reality. We think of good writing.
This class will guide you through the subtleties of the many elements of creative writing, whether you are:
- writing novel, short fiction or creative nonfiction,
- a newbie picking this up as a hobby
- getting into creative writing for the first time, or
- a content writer looking for that X factor.
Are You Ready?
Join the ranks of writers who have elevated their skills to pro status.
What's The X Factor?
As a writer, there should be a sense of quality and differentiation to any content you produce. You can and should do better than all the perfectly curated yet perfectly ordinary words written by Ai or non-writers. You should organize and paint with words in a way that will thrill people and make them always care about whatever you have to say. You should tap into your innate creative ability, communicate imaginatively, and develop a style that stands out, is expressive and authentic.
This class will help you unlock your self-conscious subconscious so that you can begin to discover how to connect through your emotions, opinions and experiences, and excel in this art field.
This class will also guide you through the WHYs and HOW TOs of:
- compelling characters,
- powerful storytelling,
- description and dialogue,
- suspense and humor,
- idea articulation,
- style nurturing,
- navigating creative blocks,
- writing with confidence,
- self understanding through creative writing,
- artistic satisfaction,
- finding your unique voice; what makes a writing distinct and how to express it authentically,
- creative techniques and exercises designed to spark your creativity and get your ideas flowing
- crafting captivating narratives, and
- handling constructive feedback.