WRITING IN PRACTICE

Learn how to revise and polish your work. Discover reviewing strategies, how to give and receive feedback, and how to work over your projects to check structure, characterisation, and more.

COURSE CONTENT

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