Wes - Creative Writing: The Craft of Style
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Creative Writing: The Craft of Style at Coursera Overview
Duration | 8 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Creative Writing: The Craft of Style at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 4 of 5 in the Creative Writing Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Approx. 8 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Creative Writing: The Craft of Style at Coursera Course details
- Your style is as unique and distinctive as your face, your voice, except that you can choose it, you can can work on it, enhance it. In this course we will introduce aspiring writers to the art of putting pressure on written language. We will study the use of metaphor and imagery, and demonstrate how clarity, grace, and inventiveness in word choice are imperative to a story?s success. Writers will emerge with the revision skills essential to all writers of good stories and good prose.
Creative Writing: The Craft of Style at Coursera Curriculum
Meaning, Sense, and Clarity
Introduction to Style
Introduction to Meaning, Sense, and Clarity
The Pyramid of Language
Scatteration
Shop Talk with Amity Gaige
Excellent Word Choice at Work, pt. 1
Excellent Word Choice at Work, pt. 2
Assignment Overview
Feedback Expectations for the Specialization
A Note on Assignments
Promo Codes
Writing with Nouns and Verbs
Introduction to Writing with Nouns and Verbs
Nouns and Verbs at Work, pt. 1
Nouns and Verbs at Work, pt 2.
Close Reading of "Lord of Misrule"
A Conversation with Jaimy Gordon, Author of "Lord of Misrule"
Assignment Overview
Economy
Introduction to Economy
Surgery
Shop Talk with Brando Skyhorse
Visiting Writer: Sophie McManus
Assignment Overview
Sophie McManus's Informal List of Words and Phrases to Cut
"No Ideas But in Things"
An Introduction to Things
Respecting the Reader's Mind
Shop Talk with Amy Bloom
The Reader-Writer Arc
Close Reading of "Song of Solomon"
Assignment Overview
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