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Description

Do you want to improve your descriptive writing? Writing what you know, will help you to develop your perception of the world about you and enable you to see the familiar things in everyday life in a new light. You will also learn how authors use their own personal histories to form the basis of their work.

Introduction

This course includes reading and writing activities that are geared to developing the use of memory, observation and the senses. The aim is to develop your perceptual abilities, honing your capacity to see detail in the world. You will be encouraged to start seeing the familiar in a new way and to make good use of your own personal history.

Course Curriculum

    • Using life experiences in your fiction 01:00:00
    • Building a believable world 00:45:00
    • Collecting and selecting 00:30:00
    • Using your observations 00:15:00
    • Involving all of the senses 00:15:00
    • Contexts 00:10:00
    • Using memories to order narrative 00:20:00
    • Raiding your past 00:20:00

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