Writing in Practice

Learn to Write Professionally

Improve your writing skills and build a portfolio of work with this practical writing course

• Learn the ins and outs of writing.

• Understand the approaches to use to develop your writing skills.

• Know how to develop characters and stories, how to use subplots and provide accurate and believable characters.

• Learn techniques to aid in your writing and build the picture.

• Learn from your tutor's feedback, understand how feedback should be interpreted and the process that writers go through.

• Build your own portfolio of work, based upon what you are learning.

Lesson Structure

There are 7 lessons in this course:

1. Work shopping and Critique
   • The workshop process
   • Points of critique
   • Types of feedback
   • Best Practices
   • Identifying and Addressing Weaknesses
2. Potential projects
   • Understanding character
   • Outlining a revision strategy
   • Goal setting
   • How to read and interpret feedback
   • Build a framework
   • Revision Process I: Structures and Character
3. Define beginning, middle, and end
   • Closer examination: beginning
   • Closer examination: middle
   • Closer examination: ending
   • Relationship between characters and structure
   • Character Arc
   • Writing character arcs
   • Building characters
   • Revision Process II: Plot Arc and Story Goals
4. Story goals
   • Conflict
   • Story goals in fiction
   • Story goals in non-fiction
   • Planning your plot arc
   • Working with Subplots
5. The function of a subplot
   • Types of subplot
   • Subplots in non-fiction
   • Revision and subplots
   • Continuity of Practice: Building Strong Writing and Editing Habits
6. Continuity
   • Good habits
   • Bad habits
   • Scheduling
   • Writer's Block
   • Character Exercises
   • Continuity of Practice:Portfolio Building
7. Continuing to write
   • Keeping up with your journal
   • Ideas in development
   • Revision processes

Aims

• Understand how to critique effectively, for your own work and others’
• Understand how to approach problems and feedback constructively
• Begin building your portfolio/samples
• Understand how to interpret feedback, including notes from your own revision and read-throughs from others
• Start setting out a revision strategy
• Understanding how structure works, how to assess structure and how to fix holes
• Understand characters and characterisation
• Understand story goals
• Understand how to map arcs for different purposes
• Understand the function of a subplot
• Understand how to revise, improve, and integrate sub plots in a fiction or non-fiction text
• Learn ways to set good writing habits
• Learn ways to break up writer’s block
• Create a regular journal practice
• Develop your portfolio further
• The importance of keeping up with your journal
• What to do with new ideas that you are not ready to start on

TAKE THE NEXT STEP AND ENROL NOW!

Study this course in practical writing skills to help you to develop and improve your skills through practice.

An experienced writer and tutor will be there every step of the way to give you useful feedback to improve your writing. 

You can enrol on the course now, but if you have any questions about the content of the course or studying with ACS, then please get in touch with us today - use our FREE COURSE COUNSELLING SERVICE to get in touch with our expert tutors. They will be pleased to help you!