Start Writing Fiction
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Start Writing Fiction at FutureLearn Overview
Start Writing Fiction
at FutureLearn
Get started with your own fiction writing, focusing on the central skill of creating characters, with this hands-on course.
Duration | 8 weeks |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Start Writing Fiction
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Start Writing Fiction at FutureLearn Highlights
Start Writing Fiction
at FutureLearn
- Learn from a novelist and short story writer
- Learn how to develop your ideas
Start Writing Fiction at FutureLearn Course details
Start Writing Fiction
at FutureLearn
What are the course deliverables?
- Apply and learn to write fiction and generate stories by creating characters
- Investigate notions of writing from your experience and from research
- Explore using a writer??s notebook to develop ideas and increase observational awareness
- Identify and realise the importance of other authors and works to develop your skills in reading as a writer
- Develop your awareness of editing, in developing your vocabulary of style and presentation
- Identify and realise the importance of exchanging work and critical comment with fellow writers
More about this course
- Participants will consider the rituals of writing and keeping a journal; learn how to develop your ideas; reflect on your own writing and editing; hear writers talk about their approach to research; and start turning events into plot
- Also have the opportunity to review the work of fellow writers and receive comments on your own, learning to read as a writer and respond to feedback
Start Writing Fiction at FutureLearn Curriculum
Start Writing Fiction
at FutureLearn
Creation of characters in fiction
Different sources for characters in stories
Ways of presenting characters in stories
Reading as a writer
Writing practice, including creativity, research, observation and editing
Peer reviewing, workshops and the importance of feedback
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