Creative Writing 100 Hours Certificate Course

There are 10 lessons:

1 Introduction

• What is creative writing
• What’s different about creative writing
• Information and creativity
• Creative genres
• Forms of Writing
• Form
• Structure
• Purpose
• Creative Writing resources
• What is needed for success
• The business of writing
• Getting published
• Self publishing
• Vanity publishing
• Terminology.

2 Basic Creative Writing Skills

• Words and their proper use
• Types of language
• Informative language
• Persuasive language
• Imaginative language
• Literal language
• Figurative language
• Formal language
• Colloquial language
• Parts of language (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, plurals, possessive nouns & pronouns, gender, adjectives, articles)
• Common grammatical errors (fragmented sentences, run on sentences, comma splices, dangling modifiers).
• Run on sentences
• Irregular verbs
• Whom or who
• Pronouns and Antecedents
• Punctuation
• Creating and critiquing
• Generating ideas
• Developing ideas
• Narrative theory
• Storyline
• Narrative structure
• Settings or scenes
• Mood or atmosphere
• Time
• Voice
• Point of view
• Creative reading.

3 Using Consise Clear Language

• Slice of life fiction
• Conciseness and Succinctness
• Understanding ambiguity
• Causes of ambiguity
• Doubt and ambiguity
• Hinge points and ambiguity
• Defamiliarisation.

4 Planning What You Write

• Writing routine
• Establishing a theme
• Organising ideas
• Paragraphing
• Writing a synopsis
• Titles
• Developing objectives.

5 Writing Fiction

• Elements
• Clues
• Signs
• Common errors
• Scope or Range
• Theme problems
• Authenticity problems
• Tone problems

6 Writing Non-fiction

• Creative non fiction
• Scope
• Developing ideas
• Narration
• Story line
• Deduction
• Induction
• Classical Development
• Chronological development
• Analogy
• Cause and effect
• Classification
• Comparison and contrast
• Definition
• Analysis
• Developing a profile
• Interviews.

7 Newspaper Writing

• What to write
• Scope
• News values
• Writing guidelines
• Regular columns
• Fillers

8 Writing for Magazines

• Scope of magazine writing
• What publishers want
• Magazine articles
• Travel writing
• Writing for public relations
• Selling your work.

9 Writing Books

• Themes
• Consistency
• Believability
• Variety
• Getting started
• Getting a contract
• Book publishing
• Non fiction books
• Fact finding

10 Special Project

• Organising a portfolio to sell yourself