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Creative Writing Classes Online by Upskillist
In this certified creative writing course, you will take your prose to the next level and discover how to write for publications.
Course Highlights
- How to craft a believable story, characters, and dialogue
- How to employ essential editing and critical-thinking tools
- How and when to employ traditional story structures
- How to employ metaphor and visual storytelling techniques with a focus on visual symbolism for a modern audience
- How to write for the modern age, achieve originality, and navigate traditionally sensitive or taboo topics fiction
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
8 Topics
The Key Elements of Story
Research
The Three-Act Structure
Character Development
Character Conflict and Humanity
Writing Dialogue
Genres of Fiction
Publication
8 Topics
Free-writing and Journaling
Exposition and Backstory
The First-person POV and Alienation
Second- and Third-person POV and Audience Identification
Short and Long Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Text Context and Subtext
Editing
8 Topics
Developing a Writing Style
Symbolism and Metaphor
The French Symbolists
Visual Storytelling and Writing for the Screen
Modernism
Postmodernism
The Beat Generation and 20th-century Counterculture
Textual Analysis
8 Topics
Culture and Subculture
Writing Gender in the 21st Century
A Look at 21st-century Canon
Words in the Information Age
Intertextuality
Parody Pastiche and Satire
Politics in Literature
The Point of it All - The Writer as a Mouthpiece for the Zeitgeist
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