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Creative Writing - Get Writing, Keep Writing

Unlock your creative writing ability
Rating: 4.2 out of 54.2 (663 ratings)
3,469 students
Created by Tracy Baines, Louise Croft
Last updated 10/2017
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Enjoy writing and have fun!
  • Create freely without being embarrassed or getting writers block
  • Fit writing around a hectic lifestyle by making time for yourself
  • Earn money from writing (if that's your goal)
  • Starting to write short stories, poems, novels, and prose
  • Create fantastic beginnings, plots, and closing scenes
  • Form well rounded characters and scenes
  • Avoid common 'beginner' mistakes to progress to publishing quickly
  • Build confidence

Requirements

  • A notebook and pen
  • A willingness to learn and desire to release your creativity

Description

Creative Writing - Get Writing, Keep Writing

Unlock your creative writing ability


Creative Writing is a fun and potentially profitable hobby. Writing needn't be intimidating or scary, and this course will get you started!

This Creative Writing course has a fun informal style, to help you become more aware of your writing style and improve your skills. If you're looking to get started with creative writing and want to unlock your creativity and imagination, this course is for you. We encourage everyone to write at least a tiny bit every day, and capture the fascinating world around them. This course will suit those who are busy and want to fit writing around their lifestyle, or those who eventually seek to write full time or get published.

A relaxed, fun course to act as a creative writing jump start! If you are looking to be inspired to get writing, this course contains tips and hints for being motivated and inspired to put your pen to paper or digits on the keyboard.

Creative writing is accessible to everyone regardless of how busy you are, our education history, or your eventual goals. Join us on the course and start having fun with words!

Course outline contains:

  • Practical advice to get you writing on a daily basis

  • Expert tips from a creative writing professional

  • How to get paid for your writing when you're ready

  • Controlling, and silencing, the fears and negativity in your head

  • Enjoying writing and capturing moments around you

  • Tools and tips to reduce the barriers to writing

This course comes with a 30 day money back guarantee.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone looking to explore creative writing in a relaxed and fun format
  • Procrastinators and those lacking in confidence
  • Those wanting to create poetry or prose for family occasions
  • Anyone wanting to make money from creative writing via magazines or publishing
  • Someone looking to increase their creativity and imagination
  • Anyone who needs to give their writing a kick start
  • Those who have always wanted to write but don't know where to begin.
  • Writing for Beginners

Course content

5 sections • 33 lectures • 1h 5m total length

  • Preview01:33

  • Preview00:16
  • Preview02:12
  • Preview00:44
  • Preview02:25
  • Preview03:26
  • Making Time for Yourself
    03:32
  • Laying Out The Path
    02:29
  • How to set effective goals
    1 page
  • What are my goals?
    2 pages

  • Preview00:23
  • Thinking Out of the Box
    02:26
  • Exercise: Thinking Outside the Box
    1 page
  • Writing for Pleasure
    00:44
  • Writing to Sell
    03:28
  • The Secret Weapon on my Bookshelf
    02:32
  • Tips: Spelling and Grammar
    2 pages
  • Shutting Down the Inner Critic
    02:10

  • Preview00:20
  • The Six Honest Serving Men
    03:33
  • Exercise: Using Titles
    1 page
  • Who's the Star?
    02:06
  • Exercise: practise forming characters
    2 pages
  • It's All in a Name
    02:48
  • The Secret to Great Dialogue
    02:13
  • Building a Picture
    02:43
  • The Magic is in the Detail
    02:00
  • Exercise: Forming Scenes
    2 pages
  • Starting and Finishing with a Bang
    03:03
  • Exercise: Opening and Closing Lines
    2 pages
  • Point of View
    02:12

  • Thank You
    00:55
  • Book Recommendations
    2 pages

Instructors

Tracy Baines
Creative Writing Coach
Tracy Baines
  • 4.2 Instructor Rating
  • 663 Reviews
  • 3,469 Students
  • 1 Course

Tracy Baines is the author of The Variety Girls published by Penguin/ Ebury, and Christmas with The Variety Girls.

For many years Tracy has written short fiction for weekly magazines in the UK, ROI, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa as Francine Lee. Her stories have been published in Woman's Weekly, Take A Break, My Weekly, The People's Friend, Yours, Weekly News, Candis and Best among others. 

Dorset reviews editor for Frost Magazine.

Ex steering group member of Dorset Writers Network.

Past regional Organiser for Dorset/Hants/Wilts area for the Society of Women Writers and Journalists (SWWJ).

Workshops/ Speaker at Literary Festivals in the UK.

Judge Yeovil Literary Prize 2010 (short story category).

Organises writing workshops on the South Coast. Qualified Tutor for Adult Learning.

Mentoring and editorial advice and consultancy.


Louise Croft
Lifestyle Coach
Louise Croft
  • 4.6 Instructor Rating
  • 5,772 Reviews
  • 249,222 Students
  • 20 Courses

Hello! My name is Louise Croft, a professional fashion blogger, entrepreneur, freelance PR, and life coach, from England. I have a first-class business degree and have worked in a wide range of industries across the world. I'm currently a digital nomad traveling the world while I teach and create courses.

I'm passionate about helping other people achieve their potential through all aspects of their life. I really hope my courses will help you do better in everything from your career to your personal confidence. Udemy is now my full-time income and I'm so excited to share these skills with others.

I'm constantly creating new courses both on my own and in collaboration with other experts, so let me know if there's thing you'd like to see in particular. Currently offering sales, negotiating, fashion, study skills, make up, skincare, coaching, creative writing, interview skills, and many more.

Thanks for reading and enjoy the learning journey!

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