Creative Writing: Revealing the Narrative
- Course Description
- Learning Objectives
- Who should take this course
- Professional Training Certificate Elective Course For:
- Textbook
- Instructor
- Instructor Biography
Course Description
This creative writing course will focus on launching and advancing fictional narratives, including short stories, novels, and drama, from conception to putting plot and character on the page. The class environment will be a working lab in which students share their content weekly, give feedback to each other, and work with the instructor to hone and push their narratives forward.
Learning Objectives
1. How to develop and hone a story
2. How to incorporate experience into narrative
3. How to give, receive and incorporate editorial feedback
2. How to incorporate experience into narrative
3. How to give, receive and incorporate editorial feedback
Who should take this course
-Fiction writers with existing work needing peer review
-New authors looking to develop narrative ideas from concept to the page
-Individuals of all backgrounds who are passionate about enhancing their creative writing skills
-New authors looking to develop narrative ideas from concept to the page
-Individuals of all backgrounds who are passionate about enhancing their creative writing skills
Instructor Biography
Dan Sloan is a veteran multimedia journalist, who wrote for Eurobiz Japan and other media after working at Reuters for 17 years. He is a frequent public speaker and commentator on current events, corporate communications and Japan for professional organizations and academic groups, a university instructor, and author of "Playing to Wiin: Nintendo and the Video Game Industry's Greatest Comeback." He is a former president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan and a former Board Member.