Wesleyan University - Writing Stories About Ourselves
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Writing Stories About Ourselves at Coursera Overview
Duration | 10 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Writing Stories About Ourselves at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 4 of 4 in the Memoir and Personal Essay: Write About Yourself Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 10 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Writing Stories About Ourselves at Coursera Course details
- In this course, creative nonfiction writers will explore traditional storytelling methods, especially those which overlap between fiction and memoir. By looking at examples from a wide range of genres, including film, song, painting?even the theme music for Jaws!?we?ll practice exercising the creative muscle that sees ourselves as characters and the experiences we?ve had as tales. We?ll focus on critical elements, like how to begin a story, what makes for worthy content, the essential use of detail, the strengths and limits of dialogue, the power of the white space. The ultimate goal is for us to become aware of an ?audience? when we write, so that the documentation of our lives will begin to resemble a ?performance? crafted onto paper rather than a private entry in a journal.
Writing Stories About Ourselves at Coursera Curriculum
What Can We Learn From Fiction?
The Most Important Person in My Story Is Me, Right?
Give the Readers What They Need, Not Necessarily What They Want
How Do I Pick a Subject?
I Want to Know What Happens Next
Interview with Amy Bloom
Train Your Eye Like a Filmmaker
I Can See It Perfectly in My Head...
Hyper-Vivid Prose
I Can See It Perfectly in My Head.... Part 2
The Inherent Drama of the White Page
Interview with Amy Bloom, part 2
Opening the Story
Judging a Story by Its Opening Line
Get Them to the Second Line
Does the Second Line Live Up to the First?
Before the Opening Line
The Joys and Pitfalls of Dialogue
Intro to Dialogue
The "Sound" of Dialogue
The Unfortunate Limits of Dialogue
What We Lose When We Only Speak Aloud
Interview with Amy Bloom, part 3
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