Wesleyan University - Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description
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Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description at Coursera Overview
Duration | 7 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description at Coursera Highlights
- 22% started a new career after completing these courses.
- 31% got a tangible career benefit from this course.
- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description at Coursera Course details
- In this course aspiring writers will be introduced to the techniques that masters of fiction use to ground a story in a concrete world. From the most realist settings to the most fantastical, writers will learn how to describe the physical world in sharp, sensory detail. We will also learn how to build credibility through research, and to use creative meditation exercises to deepen our own understanding of our story worlds, so that our readers can see all that we imagine.
Creative Writing: The Craft of Setting and Description at Coursera Curriculum
Persuasive Settings: Why Description Matters
Why Do We Write?
The Power of Persuasion
Moving Through Time and Space
Nothing Can Happen Nowhere
Shop Talk with Brando Skyhorse
Feedback Expectations for the Specialization
Assignment Overview: Slow-Motion Moment
"The Power of Persuasion" by Mario Vargas Llosa
"The Odour of Chrysanthemums" by D.H. Lawrence
A Note on Assignments
Promo Codes
If You Build It, They Will Come
What Is Significant Detail?
"Things That Suck"
Shop Talk with Salvatore Scibona
Assignment Overview: Habitual Ritual
Text of "How to Write About Africa" by Binyavanga Wainaina
"How to Become a Writer" by Lorrie Moore
"Forever Overhead" by David Foster Wallace
Credibility and Research
Three Phases of Research
Meditation Exercise
Shop Talk with Amy Bloom
Assignment Overview: Strange Lands
Realities
Looking at a Student Example
What Is Genre? (including Shop Talk with Amy Bloom on Noir Fiction)
Visiting Writer: Historical Fiction with Valerie Martin
Assignment Overview: Primal Landscapes
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