Description
Description
Have you always wanted to write a novel, memoir, or short story—but never got beyond the first few pages?
Perhaps you’ve drafted your book but know something isn’t quite right. Or you feel daunted by the blank page, nervous to take that first step.
Maybe you’re battling writer’s block. Or you simply want to exercise your creativity in a supportive, safe space.
What you need is encouragement, expert guidance, and insight into the creative writing techniques that transform a humdrum story into an electrifying narrative.
Our ten-week online Creative Writing Course will give you all this and more.
What You’ll Learn in This Creative Writing Course
Each module of our creative writing course tackles a key writing skill through theory, discussion, practical exercises and weekly assignments:
- Finding your voice
- Generating and developing ideas
- Building compelling characters
- Structuring your narrative
- Writing powerful scenes
- Mastering point of view
- Crafting authentic dialogue
- Shaping beginnings, middles and ends
- Creating suspense
- Showing, not telling
How This Live Creative Writing Course Works
- We’ll release a new module in two parts every week for ten weeks
- The first part includes practical exercises to complete before continuing with part two.
- Each module ends in an assignment, to which we recommend you complete in no more than thirty minutes.
- It should take between two to four hours to complete each week’s work.
- You will receive personal constructive feedback and support from Richard or Jo-Anne on every assignment.
- The course includes three months access to our monthly Writers’ Circle sessions.
Who Should Take This Creative Writing Course
This online creative writing course is ideal for:
- Aspiring writers taking their first serious steps
- Established writers looking to refresh and sharpen their creative writing skills
- Anyone ready to commit to their writing journey with expert guidance
Your Creative Writing Instructors
Jo-Anne Richards is an internationally published novelist (The Innocence of Roast Chicken, My Brother’s Book, Sad at the edges, Touching the Lighthouse and The Imagined Child) with a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Wits University. She taught writing skills in the Wits Journalism Department for fifteen years and has supervised Creative Writing Masters students at both Wits and UCT.
Richard Beynon, writer of the popular Monday Writing Motivation series is an award-winning story consultant and screenwriter with decades of experience in South African television. His credits include many of the country’s most popular dramas and soaps including Isidingo, Scandal, Rhythm City and Isibaya.
Together since 2007, Jo-Anne and Richard have guided hundreds of writers from first draft to publication through All About Writing’s creative writing courses, mentoring programmes, and international writing retreats.
Ready to Start Your Creative Writing Journey?
This creative writing course will give you everything you need to write compelling fiction or creative non-fiction. Start immediately.
