Short Courses For Writers

The first draft of your STORY is the beginning of the writing process and demands discipline and order. Send us an email for cost and registration

Explore the 7 C’s will help you to question who you are as a writer, and identify what you’re a master at, and some areas that need reflection. Send us an email for cost and registration

It is your calling as a writer to write stories, to constantly search for new ideas, to search for ‘the one idea’ that will change the world. The hardest thing about writing is knowing what to write. Send us an email for cost and registration

The best place to start realising your story is to plant the seed of your idea with a solid premise, which will then be conceptualised. Send us an email for cost and registration

Once you have something you want to write about (Idea), defined the Premise and Concept, and know what your Genre is, you need to know what the intention, objective or controlling idea – theme – of your story is. Send us an email for cost and registration

Before you start developing the idea you have for a story, you need to know what genre you want to set your story in, what type of story you want to write. Send us an email for cost and registration

Identify and explore the characters in your story, the Protagonist, the Antagonist and villains, supporting characters and function characters. Send us an email for cost and registration

Make the most of the people who live in your story by exploring visual dynamics, doing your research, and writing solid biographies. Send us an email for cost and registration

Let us look at dialogue, how characters express themselves verbally. Dialogue is most probably the most prominent part of any story, it must convey important elements of the plot but still work as dialogue and create the illusion of conversation. Send us an email for cost and registration

Structure is discipline, it is the starting point in the process of writing; without structure, you have no story. Take a closer look at plotting your story, controlling your story creatively. Send us an email for cost and registration

Here are 14 structural points to structure your story, so that theme, character, and plot are united. Send us an email for cost and registration

Learn how to write a story outline, identifying the story events (scenes) of the most important events in your protagonist’s life, and how to dramatise each story event, exploring the exterior and internal lives of your story.. Send us an email for cost and registration

In taking ownership of your writing you will explore the ABC of Copyright, how to write a perfect Top Sheet, and marketing your story. Send us an email for cost and registration

Familiarise yourself with language of the visual medium and learn how to read a film. Send us an email for cost and registration

Let’s look at how to evaluate films; this is not only useful if you want to pursue a career as film journalist or critic but gives you an idea of what readers /producers / publishers are looking for when they read your story. Send us an email for cost and registration

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