Course Offerings Our writing courses are designed to help you improve your fiction and prepare you to submit short stories to publishers. Our courses are powered by the Claroline Learning Management System, an open-source online education system. It offers dynamic chat, assignments, and user forums. All introductory courses on 1-2-Writing are provided free of charge to the participants.
Freewriting Courses Freewriting 101 For anyone unfamiliar with freewriting, this essential course will develop your original writing voice and give your words a new depth. Through ten and fifteen minute free-writes, your unique voice will emerge from your unconscious imagination. Your words will emerge in new and exciting ways. As you become more in tune with your inner self, you will find the courage to explore the themes and topics that define you as a person - the very things you most need to write about. You will discover your voice. Register for Next Course Freewriting 102: Freewriting Your Way Into Trouble! The current course is currently filled. It will be offered again in April 2008. Need more conflict in your story? Not sure where to go next? Afraid that your characters have nothing worth fighting for? Escape the ordinary with Freewriting Your Way Into Trouble! Through this course, you will take on challenging and entertaining writing prompts to address dangerous themes: religion, politics, and Tinkerbell. Register Now! Here's an example prompt from the most recent freewriting course: Batman, Winnie the Pooh, and the Little Mermaid get together at a meeting convened by Tinkerbell. They're trying to pick between Obama and McCain. Then Hillary shows up. Freewriting 150 - Basic Tools to Free-Write Your Memoirs - Register for 31 March 2008! 31 March to 2 April 2008 - 3 Days Instructor: Ryan Edel This three-day online seminar will teach three of the basic freewriting skills that most help in writing personal memoirs: word association, thought webs, and lists. These essential skills will allow you to free-write without a pre-set prompt and can help you unearth the ideas and emotions that make you who you are. Freewriting 200 - Tools to Free-Write Your Memoirs - Register for 3 April 2008! 3 April to 23 April 2008 - 3 weeks Instructor: Ryan Edel Price: Now Free! For anyone who has a story locked inside, freewriting provides an amazing way to get that story out. Sometimes, though, it's impossible to find the right prompt. Other times, you find yourself locked up, unable to link enough words together to express what you really mean. For these times, you need specialized tools. Word lists that will reveal your hidden thoughts. Associations you examine for deeper meaning. A way to put everything together on paper. Through this three-week workshop, you'll learn how to apply valuable freewriting tools to documenting not just your life, but what you feel about it. This course is now free - there will be no registration fee to attend the April 3rd course. Learn more about Freewriting Your Memoirs. Fiction Courses Fiction 101 - Introduction to Conflict - Register for the next available course For new students of writing, Fiction 101 is the course to build your understanding of the driving force in all fiction: conflict. Through a series of short exercises, you will build a story from the ground up, beginning with setting and moving on to character, conflict, dialogue, and resolution. The focus will be crafting a sympathetic protagonist and a then writing a believable antagonist to move your story. This introduction to character and conflict development includes a short lesson on dialogue to put snap in the voice of your characters. Learn more about Introduction to Short Stories. No Prerequisite Max Attendance: 6 Fiction 102 - Narrative Voice (Coming Soon) Learn to change your tense, throw your voice, and maintain that eye for detail. Through short exercises in past and present tense with changing point of view, you will work with the different forms of narrative voice. You will learn the strengths of the limited third-person narrator and the distractions of the first-person present. Hands-on writing experience will teach you which narrative style to use in your stories and give you the tools to adjust your technique to meet the needs of the story. Fiction 103 - Conflict (Coming Soon) Good stories examine good and evil. Great stories reveal the gray in-between. This course will focus on crafting the believable protagonist and then pitting your character against the various faces of your evil (or not so evil) antagonist. Fiction 104 - Setting and Description (Coming Soon) Suspension of Disbelief is the key to fiction's power over the imagination. Convincing your reader to ignore the unreality of the written page requires you the writer to craft a fictional environment so believable that it could be real. Through exercises here, you will develop a realistic universe for your story and incorporate the details into the plot of your story. Fiction 201 - Workshop Your Short Story - Register for the next course This workshop is your introduction to the full workshop experience. Unlike the 100-level fiction courses and their emphasis on structured exercises, Fiction 201 goes right to the heart of writing - your story. Each student will submit one original work of 1,000-5,000 words, and then the workshop leader will guide each student in examining the stories. Learn more about Workshopping Your Short Story. PREREQ: 500 word sample of your work Max attendance: 6 Fiction 202 - Short Story Workshop (Coming Soon) This workshop is a continuation of 201. Students who have mastered the fundamentals of critique will submit new stories and revise. PREREQ: Fiction 201 Workshop Leaders Training Course (WLTC) (Coming Soon) PREREQ: 10,000 word sample of your work, successful participation in fiction workshops WLTC 301 - Identifying the Elements of Story WLTC 302 - Providing Feedback WLTC 303 - Class Dynamics |
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Do you want to learn to write? - Will you submit short stories to publishers? - Would you like to write believable antagonists? Craft your protagonists a true enemy? Learn to write effective characters? - - - 1-2-Writing: Learn to write snappy dialogue Develop your writing voice Learn to Write Fiction in the First and Third Person - - - Focus on the Workshop Process - - - Powered by Claroline Learning Management System - - - Coming Soon: Training for Workshop Leaders - - -
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Check Out the Blog In the creative writing blog, I encourage writers through daily discussion to experiment, to push the limits of their writing. By learning the essentials of good writing and -- more importantly -- learning to identify these elements, you will develop your voice. - Join the Blog! Do you have technique that works well for you? Are you looking for a forum on writing topics? Sign up to become one of our bloggers! You will have access to start your own threads in each of our creative writing categories, and other visitors can respond to your posts. - The Newsletter Sign up for the Free Writing Workshop Newsletter. I'll keep you up-to-date on new workshops and developments in the creative writing community. You'll be the first to hear about new opportunties for writers on this website. Plus, each newsletter will include tips on how to improve your writing. Or, if you're daring... - Submit your Fiction! Each edition of the newsletter will feature a short bit of fiction (or poetry or nonfiction) to get the creative juices flowing. If you would like your name and your story to be shared, Submit Your Story Here!
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