Tap into the creative writer within you. This class is geared for anxious beginners and uninspired writers, so whether you are a beginner or experienced writer, this writing workshop is for you. You will write similes, metaphors, alliteration, and more through practice and daily writing exercises with a real, live, interactive, online teacher you can talk with.
You will learn specific methods to craft poetry and prose. Creative Writing Workshop offers you a great source of inspiration, a wealth of concrete examples, and the step by step guidance you need in order to write creatively. I will show you writing prompts and samples from my own journal to provide you a model, and to give you the support you need. Bring a desire to learn, and a commitment to write every day throughout the entire course.
Course Lessons
1. Lesson One: Inside This Pen - Inside This Pen... Be a writer; act like a writer. Choose your writing tools carefully, a pen and a journal. You will begin your daily thirty minute writing exercises.
2. Lesson Two: Observation, Description, Simile and Metaphor - Observation, Description, Simile and Metaphor.
3. Lesson Three: Be an Ethnographer with Euphony and Cacophony - Euphony, Cacophony, Found Poem, Derived Poem, Themes, Lists and Color Poems.
4. Lesson Four: Neighborhood Maps, Lists, Schema - Neighborhood Maps: Lists to Hang On To, Schema, Prepositions.
5. Lesson Five: The Journal Experience - Evaluate your own writing journey through your daily free writing journal. Museum writing prompts to jazz up your creativity.
Duration: Continuous - Enroll anytime!
Faculty Information:
Tap into the creative writer within you, and end the frustration of writer's block with Creative Writing Workshop. Students will master the discipline of daily writing by writing 30 minutes daily, 5 days a week, for 5 weeks. This is crucial to any success. Students will learn how to summon their muse to get the creative juices flowing by following lessons and assignments. By the end of the six week course, students will compose a series of poems and prose, creating a writing journal filled with strong imagery and literary elements.
Instructor: Joanie Brown
Syllabus: View Syllabus
Other Activities:
You will also be given honest, but gentle and constructive feedback. Imagine composing your own Writing Journal full of fresh and exciting prompts, poems, and ideas to keep you writing. Write, learn, and belong to the community of writers here at Universal Class.
Facility Information:
Class Lessons to be covered include:
* Lesson One: Inside This Pen
Step One: The Pen Occasion
Step Two: Purchase a Writing Journal
Step Three: Reading and Writing To be a Writer, You Must Write Your Voice is Like a Snowflake Prior Knowledge Voice The Single Best Writing Tip Reading Response
Step Four: 30 Minute Daily Write It's Okay to Write Junk Objectivity Rules: Thirty Minutes Means Thirty Minutes Questions to Ask Yourself Before Writing Variety is More Than a Spice Paint a Picture With Words Imagery Ocean Play Tuesday at Lexington Market The End, Then What?
* Lesson Two: Observation, Description, Simile and Metaphor I Am a Writer Speak Like a Writer Capture the Moment Fake Rain on an Aluminum Roof Ready? Click. Shoot. Daily Writing Check-Up Prompts Observation, Description, Simile and Metaphor
Prompt 1: When Life gives You Lemons, Write a Sensory Descriptive Observation Simile and Metaphor: Cultural Experience:
Prompt 3: Jazz up your writing with the "w" words Who, What, When, Where, Why and How Lexington market, Baltimore
Prompt 4: Extended Metaphor Moon Journal Alliteration Onomatopoeia.
* Lesson Three: Be an Ethnographer with Euphony and Cacophony prompt 6: Ethnographer for a Day! Create a poem from an Ethnography Report Prompt 7: Found Poem
Prompt 8: Appropriated Poem
Prompt 9: Cacophony
Prompt 10: Euphony Hyperbole Things to Think About. Themes Make a List, Check it Twice The Beach Collection
Prompt 11: Free association poetry
Prompt 12: The Color Poem Lesson Four Activate Your Schema Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
Prompt 13: The List In the Scheme of Things Inside the Wonderful World of Prepositions
Prompt 14: Extend the List of Prepositions Neighborhood Mapping Tag, Your it: the Lost Art of Play Play Lesson Five Journal Experience Prompt 17: Daily Free Write Poem Photographic Memory
Prompt 19: Museum Painting Evaluating Your Journal.
Notes:
* Basic Course Fee: $39.00
* CEU Certificate Option: $64.00 (add $25.00 to course fee)
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