Creative Writing - Get Writing, Keep Writing

In this section we'll cover everything you need to prepare to begin your creative writing journey.

To become a writer do you need any equipment or tools?

The first thing you should consider is your reasons for pursuing creative writing - what are you looking to gain and what are your goals?

One of writing's secret tips is to always have a notebook with you to capture your ideas - here's why.

Using a handy technique called 'the morning pages' you could start writing every day and unlock your creativity immediately.

It's essential that you make time for yourself, even if you're a mother or carer, and in this lecture we look at why.

Before you begin the writing journey you should give yourself some targets and goals.

In this section we'll look at motivation, increasing your creativity, and the differences between writing for pleasure or income.

To be a great creative writer we need to unlock our childlike creativity by thinking outside the box. This lecture will give you ideas and techniques to help rebuild that imagination.

If you're writing for pleasure you will have no boundaries - so enjoy it, and let your imagination run free.

This lecture will explain what you need to do in order to be able to write to sell. Whether you're looking to get published in magazines, or write your own novel, this lecture explains it all.

If you're worried about getting your spelling and grammar right, this handy secret tip could be just what you need.

It can be very difficult to build up your writing confidence if your inner critic is pulling you down. Here's how to override them and keep your confidence up.

In this section we'll look at building characters, scenes, and plots.

A handy tool for generating ideas and plots from a start point is to use the Six Honest Serving Men poem.

To build a story you must first build a character, and this lecture looks at simple ideas to help you form a picture about whom you're writing.

Naming your characters is something often overlooked, but it's vital that you choose the right name - here's how.

Written dialogue is actually very different to spoken dialogue, and this lecture looks at how you get the right balance.

When you're painting a scene for your story, make sure you include all five senses.

Rather than including huge amount of descriptive language, this lecture teaches you to give intriguing and specific scene setting information that your reader will love.

Writing an engaging start to your story, and a satifying ending, are hugely important but can be quite intimidating. Don't let them stop you writing - this lecture will give you confidence and ideas to get started.

There are many different options for deciding what point of view to tell your story from, and here we'll explain all 4.

Thank you for completing this course, please do leave a review - and happy writing!