Course overview

Unleash your imagination by responding to the headlines with your own fictional version of events. This is a highly stimulating course and fascinating to see where you take the prompt, as well as how others respond. The tutor provides a wealth of headlines from diverse media sources and offers published mentor texts to stimulate your imagination and analyse elements of story craft. You’ll have dedicated writing time, the opportunity to share in pairs and receive feedback from peers and the tutor provides written feedback on one piece. What’s great is this is an excellent creative practice to keep up, long after the course has finished.

Course description

You know how sometimes when you read a headline your mind is already guessing and filling in the blanks? Well, this is the course to tickle your imagination, write wild and free from just a headline! This is an excellent writing practice as you’re coming fresh each time, pull new situations and characters from your mind in the dedicated writing time. What’s more, you’ll get to see where others took the story and feedback in real time when you share in pairs or threes. The tutor provides craft notes from published mentor texts to recap effective writing techniques, including stories inspired by the news. You’ll get written feedback from the tutor on one submitted piece. This is a relaxed and stimulating course for those wanting to energise their writing practice.

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