Get the skills to write creatively.
Ever thought there’s something in you that might look good on the printed page?
The Cengage Education Creative Writing course gives students the essentials and the encouragement to get going in the medium and genre of their choice – poetry, scripts, biographies, children’s writing, genre writing, short story writing and non-fiction writing for the self-help market. You’ll learn simple techniques professional writers use to recycle their ideas and put them to use in a variety of different ways.
The course also introduces writers to ways of making extra money from associated activities like workshops and author visits to schools or bookshops.
On completion of your course:
Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Cengage Education Creative Writing Certificate.
Key areas of learning:
- Introduction to creative writing
- Tracking ideas
- The short story
- Characters, deep viewpoint and dialogue
- Family histories, autobiography, biography
- Non-fiction
- Writing a novel
- Speeches and scripts
- Writing for children
- Poetry writing
- Editing, polishing and marketing
- Setting the scene