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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Creative Writing: The Craft of Character by Wesleyan University

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About the Course

At the center of a good story are the characters in it. In this course aspiring writers will discover how to build and bring to life complex, vivid and unforgettable characters. We will study the choices a writer makes to bring all characters to life on the page, and we will perform written exercises in order to develop a variety of writing and pre-writing techniques, in order to create a variety of characters. We will learn how to use our own life experiences, and the people we know (and how not to!). We will develop inner (thoughts and feelings) and outer (appearance, habits, behavior) lives for our characters and see how that can lead us to richer and more interesting stories. We will breathe life into our characters and let them surprise us....

Top reviews

SS

Aug 10, 2016

I loved this course! Extremely useful and hands on. The course instructor was really impressive, both informative and empathetic, both arty and to the point. Totally admired her style of instruction.

NM

Sep 25, 2020

The course was very well-structured and challenging. The instructor is very experienced and good, thus used relevant materials for this course, be it the guests, or the assignments, or the examples.

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By Camille B

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Mar 28, 2019

Helpful, but not very much.

By kathleen g

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Jan 16, 2024

The instructors are fine......the review process is not. There is no input from an instructor and the reviews by persons in the course are very spotty: one or two are by people who know what they are doing, but a good number are not. In my last assignment, my review was total jibberish and I had spent many hours on the assignment.

By Calin-Stefan P

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Mar 26, 2024

The peer review is terrible. Many trolls and disinterested people. They didn`t engage, didn`t provide feedback and didn`t even make the slightest value judgment in peer-review.