Fiction Writing Level 3
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Very good tutors with excellent knowledge and teaching abilities. There are a lot of practical questions to test your knowledge. The course is so user friendly which is great for a distance learning course.
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Vocational qualification
Online
Description
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Type
Vocational qualification
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Methodology
Online
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Class hours
120h
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Duration
6 Months
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Start date
Different dates available
Have you always wanted to write, but never quite had the courage to start?
On this Oxbridge Home Learning course you can let your imagination soar into the unknown, let your characters take you to places you've dreamed of with plots and twists only you, for now, can imagine.
This Fiction Writing distance learning course is designed for anyone considering professional authoring for a variety of media including books, short stories, radio and television or developing your own personal interest as a past-time or hobby, we understand that not everyone may want to be published. Usually writers work on a self-employed, freelance basis. You could choose your own working hours, although you may still have to meet publishing deadlines. This really could be a chance for you to turn your talents into something much more.
This course will fearlessly create and develop you and your skills in an encouraging and supportive environment within your own home and in your own time.
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About this course
On this course you will:
Develop skills and techniques of writing fiction successfully and in a variety of styles
Examines practical aspects of getting published plus the essential elements of both short stories and novels
You don't need any prior skills in the subject area to start this course.
At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement by ABC Awards
Reviews
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Very good tutors with excellent knowledge and teaching abilities. There are a lot of practical questions to test your knowledge. The course is so user friendly which is great for a distance learning course.
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Course rating
Recommended
Centre rating
Tom Merritt
This centre's achievements
All courses are up to date
The average rating is higher than 3.7
More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months
This centre has featured on Emagister for 8 years
Subjects
- Conflict
- Income Tax
- Drama
- Television Presenting
- Radio
- Authoring
- Grammar
- Writing
- Skills and Training
- Characterisation
- Keeping Records
- Copyright
- Payment
- Hero
- Novel
- Action
- Mystery
- Thriller
- Writing Dialogue
- Heroine
- Villain
Course programme
The course is divided up into 8 units, as follows:
The Short Story- How to study and analyse it
- Studying the market
- Overseas markets
- Writing is a business
- How do I find ideas?
- How do I present my manuscript?
- Where do I find facts?
- Choosing a theme
- The basic emotion
- First or third person?
- Get out of the way!
- Reader identification
- Setting
- Style
- Plotting
- Accuracy
- The plot scheme
- A twist in the tale
- Finding a plot
- Conflict, tension and suspense
- Balance and pace
- Your chief character
- Names
- Can people be plots?
- Characterisation
- Motives
- Mannerisms
- Minor Characters
- Hero, Heroine, Villain or Clown
- How people operate
- How to start?
- The plot thickens
- Stuck?
- Handling Transitions
- How to end?
- Your work plan
- Rules are made to be broken
- Choosing a title
- Writing Dialogue
- Grammar, dialect and slang
- Types of short story
- The serial
- Copyright
- The laws of defamation
- Agents and “Vanity Publishers”
- Keeping records
- Payment
- Income Tax
- Expenses
- Writing for radio
- Writing for television
- Presenting a TV drama
- Structure
- Action, Thriller, Mystery
- Science Fiction
- Crime and Detective novels
- Historical novels
- Serious novels
- Final points
Each unit is followed by a written tutor marked assignment (TMA), which is submitted and then marked by your tutor. You will not be required to take an external exam.
Fiction Writing Level 3