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.
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.
By Swapna B
•I love the course. The teaching and the teachers are both amazing. I will fulfill my dream of being a successful author and this course is helping me in that.
By Nowshin N N
•I enjoyed this course. learned a lot and made many mistakes, along the way this course taught me how to engage with your own character and that is the fun part.
By Elizabeth G
•This was very helpful. More so, than plot. The feedback I received from my peers was better. I realized the power of POV. I also learned about looking at scenes
By Bharti J
•Great course and interactive platform. Just one hitch! I would prefer to have the hard copy of the certificate as required by a Publishing house to get a job.
By arya k s
•Loved this course. It has been designed in a way that makes you think at characters from different perspectives. It drives into making healthy writing habits.
By September L
•I got so much out of this particular course. I loved the guest authors, even ordered some of their books. I feel like I got tremendous value here. Thanks!
By Jennifer T
•Amy Bloom is such a wonderful speaker! Love the videos about crafting vivid and memorable characters. The peer reviewed assignments are challenging and fun.
By Matthew J G
•I truly loved the tasks in this course. Also, the community found in the forums contributed to a noticeable progression of interesting topics and courseware.
By Donna P
•I enjoyed this course because it gave me a bit of a challenge. The lectures were short, sweet and to the point which allowed me to do them in my spare time.
By Vishal M
•It was an interesting and in depth course. The resources are good and especially how to ask questions to create a compelling characters. Its worth a shot.
By Savita B
•Very good course, including excellent input from the teachers, and, in my opinion, some challenging assignments, which enable the student to learn more.
By Anthoni R
•Great way to introduce writing character and how to embody those characters. Amy Bloom is a brilliant, welcomed voice in the ear of an aspiring writer.
By Victoria S
•All of the Creative Writing courses have been helpful to me in grounding me in my writing practice. I cannot thank you all enough for this experience.
By Raul N C G
•Good course and interesting exercises. The instructor tackled the course in a bit different way that works fairly well for the course and its content.
By Trish S
•This course offers great ideas and tools on how to make a character more 3D. Helpful links are offered and the discussion boards are very well done.
By Thangella S
•The course is short and to the point and the assignments are also creative and challenging! Thank you Wesleyan University for such wonderful course!
By Aisha K
•Excellent scaffolding of exercises to provide a broad intro aspects of character development. Enjoyable, meaningful, and great teaching methodology!
By Polina K
•I learned a lot thanks to this course. The teachers are wonderful, and so is the information provided. I can feel my writing improve. Thank you:)
By Perri Z
•I enjoyed listening to and reading each assignment's parts , all relevant and added more to my own learning perspective in developing characters.
By Hiobi H
•Merci une fois de plus pour ce cours très très instructif. Les enseignants m'aident à poursuivre mon projet de littéraire actuellement en cours.
By Donna R
•The craft of character was very enlighten and gives you the knowledge of creating characters and giving them an identity to be place in a story
By TJ S
•Don't shy away from the challenging course material contained within, especially in Module 2. If writing was easy...y'know where this is going.
By Emily H
•Really great video examples and writing prompts. Peer reviews have been insightful and I've enjoyed reading other's work. Great series so far!
By Abrar A A
•I love the professor. Her tips and lessons and also the assignments.. They were quite challenging and took time to understand.. but I loved it
By Victoria
•Great exercises that are very effective. A well-taught course with clever instruction designed to get you to the heart of writing character.