Creative Writing Course
Online, Spain
Course
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Key Summary
About: The Creative Writing course is an online workshop at Escuela de Escritores Virtual Campus. It has three modules of three months each you can take in any order. On Wednesdays the coordinator opens forums, posts PDFs and brief; students have seven days to submit. Teachers give written individual reports and group critique, and Enrique Páez provides a video. Once a month there's a virtual chat to discuss lessons.
Career Outcomes: You can pursue roles as novelists, copywriters, content writers, journalists or screenwriters or in publishing, editing, communications and advertising. It builds storytelling, revision, peer‑feedback skills for creative and commercial writing.
Description of the workshop
Writing is a trade that can be learned. If you want to write, you can, but first you must know the techniques of a trade as old as the man: the storyteller. Because a story can take many forms: that of a story or a novel, yes, but also that of a conference, an advertisement or a biography.
The agenda of Creative Writing has been prepared by Enrique Páez, one of the pioneers of the teaching of creative writing in Spain. Enrique knows that the first step in writing a story is ... to start writing. Overcoming the fears associated with creation, freeing the imagination and knowing the techniques that allow you to express your talent (the characters, the construction of the scene, the visibility, the narrator, the time ...) are the objectives of this course. With your unbound writing and mastery of narrative techniques, the time will come to manipulate and transcend them.
The Creative Writing course consists of three modules of three months each (The writing unleashed, We write without stopping and Unlock your writing) that you can perform in the order you want throughout the academic year.
Functioning
The courses are taught in the Virtual Campus of the Escuela de Escritores and can be followed from any place and at any time. Each unit the teacher comments all the texts in a written report, in which in addition to making a personalized comment to each student, makes a global comment, centered on the theme of the unit and complemented by what was discussed in the group throughout unit.
The courses start on Wednesdays, the day on which the coordinator starts the first discussion forums. That day also accesses the first PDF with the theoretical work material and the practical proposal of writing. Each subject of the course is complemented with a video by Enrique Páez, coordinator of the syllabus. The students will have a space of seven days (until Tuesday), to send their exercises. The teacher will collect the exercises and put them in common with the group, guiding the debate and reading about them. On Tuesday of the following week he will send his final report to the group. And, once a month, during the day and at the time that best suits the majority of students, a virtual chat (in a private chat room) will be convened to discuss the lessons or review some aspects that may raise doubts.
