Introduction to Creative Writing

Find your voice and get started as a writer. Join a community of like-minded individuals and develop your writing talent. Highly recommended as a starting point for creative writing knowledge and skills development, the Introduction to Creative Writing course will introduce you to the possibilities of the writing craft and its many forms.

In this course, you will learn fundamental vocabulary, workshop practices, and basic writing skills that can be applied to any genre. You will be introduced to choices of point of view in fiction, basic requirements of the narrative scene, dialogue, narrative structure in fiction and nonfiction, techniques of lively writing, metaphoric language, and poetic forms. Techniques for getting started as a writer, generating material, finding a voice, and some practical information about publishing and the writing life will be covered.