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Creative Writing Stage 2

ONLINE 5-week course

Beyond the beginning: developing, finishing
and perfecting your fiction

Do you want to take your creative writing to the next level?
Do you want to unleash great creative writing flair in your
short stories or novel?
Do you want practical feedback on your writing from an
experienced teacher?
Do you want to learn from the best in a nurturing environment?

Importantly, do you want to learn from the comfort of your home? Perhaps you don’t live in Sydney or can’t get to our harbourside Centre. If so, you can enhance and extend your creativity with the online course, Creative Writing Stage 2.

This course builds on the skills learnt in Creative Writing Stage 1 or Writing Books for Children. It’s ideal if you want to extend your skills or if you want to hone your completed pieces of writing.

This course is exercise-based. You will have weekly assignments so that you can practice your writing and receive invaluable feedback from your online tutor. Workshopping is an important way of learning about your skills and weaknesses and it will be a central part of the course.

Here's what you'll learn

This creative writing course will cover:

how to find, create or extend your main characters and how to
place them within a world of believable minor characters
how to make similar characters distinct on the page – what is your
character’s ‘journey’?
structuring your story
climax and resolution: how these shape the final story – and
how to write them!
the principles of scene development: dialogue, pacing, the manipulation of time, character interaction, management of exposition
the right process of structural editing, copy-editing and proofreading, using examples from both published and student work
and MUCH more.

Exclusive access to our Online Writing Forum

When you graduate from Creative Writing Stage 2, you'll get exclusive access to our online creative writing forum. It’s a safe place to get feedback on your writing and this supportive environment will help you keep your momentum going with your writing.

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Learn from the best

DR PAMELA FREEMAN
Pamela is author of 23 books, the most recent of which, Lolly Legs, has been published by Walker Books. In 2010 Full Circle (Book 3 of The Castings trilogy), was published in the US, UK, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany as well as Australia. Another children’s book, Victor’s Challenge, was published in 2009 in Australia and the UK. ...more
CATHIE TASKER
In addition to Pamela Freeman, your online tutors include editor and manuscript assessor, Cathie Tasker. Cathie is a fiction editor with over 25 years experience. Her specialisations are in science fiction, children’s and young adult fiction and genre adult fiction. She is a veteran of the book publishing industry, both in editorial and marketing, in children’s publishing, and in adult fiction and manuscript assessments. Her publishing background has been at Scholastic Australia, HarperCollins and Koala Books. ...more

Course content and outcomes are consistent,
regardless of whether you learn at the Centre or online

We are sticklers for consistency and quality in our courses, so you’ll achieve the same outcomes regardless of which tutor you have. Naturally, each tutor brings their own insight to the course, but you can be assured that the content is consistent across the board.

You’ll also achieve the same outcomes regardless of whether you enrol in our online or face-to-face course!

Your online classroom

You can attend the online classroom any time, any day of the week. This way, you can fit your learning into your schedule and lifestyle. You do not have to commit to a set time each week. However, you MUST complete each module during the week specified, or you won't get the most out of the course. Each week builds on the one before and you have the opportunity to ask questions and make comments about the topics we discuss each week. To sample a taste of how this will work, click here

How much time should you commit each week?

You need to commit a minimum of 2 to 3 hours a week. The audio program itself is around 2 hours a week. Beyond that, we recommend that you put into practice what you have learnt that week. While you are expected to commit to a minimum of 2 to 3 hours a week, we won't hold you back if you are super keen and want to spend much more time than that on your writing.

Rave Reviews for online course: Creative Writing Stage 2

DALE TURNER

"I enjoyed the interaction with the tutor and other classmates. The course has inspired me to write a story I had only thought about before. The helpful advice from the presenter was excellent and it was very easy to do the course online - it was like having a special friend I could share my work with.

"Cathie was wonderful – I loved her enthusiasm, guidance and honesty. She gave a lot of her time to answering any questions we posted and many will be copied and kept as a useful resource."

JANET BARWICK

"The course was very easy and convenient. I'm a shift worker and it's impossible to organise a roster to have a certain day off for a number of weeks to attend a course. I also live about two and a half hrs south of Sydney and the online course gives me access to something that is not available down here."

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE TESTIMONIALS

Next available course:

5-WEEK ONLINE COURSE:
Creative Writing Stage 2

TIME Whenever suits you
FEE: $395 (includes GST)

COURSE STARTS THE WEEK BEGINNING:

Monday 04 Jun 2012

Available

Can't start on this date?
No problem. We'll have another course starting in about two weeks. Enter
your details in the yellow form above and we'll email you when the new
date is announced.

NEXT AVAILABLE:

5-WEEK ONLINE COURSE: Creative Writing Stage 2
TIME: Whenever suits you
FEE: $395 (includes GST)

COURSE STARTS THE WEEK BEGINNING:

Monday 04 Jun 2012

Available

Can't start on this date?
No problem. We'll have another course starting in about four weeks. Enter your details in the yellow form below and we'll email you when the new date is announced.

ONLINE COURSE DEMO

RAVE REVIEWS ABOUT THE
ONLINE COURSE:
CREATIVE WRITING STAGE 2

"I liked the assignments as they worked well to stretch my specific skills and thus boosted my knowledge of what I need and confidence to produce certain types of writing. I looked forward to the feedback and was delighted that it was both very prompt and extremely helpful.

"The feedback from Cathie was remarkably insightful, clear and helpful. I found I could improve my writing immediately in response to her input. I found this very encouraging. The online set up works well and the handouts are not so huge that the printer cannot cope and I can read them all without too much time and effort needed. The modules being in about half hour chunks was good as any longer and I would have struggled to find time to devote to them."
- Dr Ruth Armstrong

"I would highly recommend this course. Do it! You won't regret the decision."
- Maurice Venables

"This was an excellent course. The lectures were very informative and had lots of little tricks and tips that will be very helpful both now and in the future. It's great that the timing is flexible - and you can listen to the lectures over and over as a refresher."
- Jessica Smith