Your style is as unique and distinctive as your face, your voice, except that you can choose it, you can can work on it, enhance it. In this course we will introduce aspiring writers to the art of putting pressure on written language. We will study the use of metaphor and imagery, and demonstrate how clarity, grace, and inventiveness in word choice are imperative to a story’s success. Writers will emerge with the revision skills essential to all writers of good stories and good prose.
This course is part of the Creative Writing Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Meaning, Sense, and Clarity
Writing with Nouns and Verbs
Economy
"No Ideas But in Things"
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- 4 stars17.79%
- 3 stars2.96%
- 2 stars0.18%
- 1 star0.74%
TOP REVIEWS FROM CREATIVE WRITING: THE CRAFT OF STYLE
Beautiful course, I've been writing for years, and this experience has been of great help and polishing. You are creating great writers. Thank you for the opportunity and all the knowledge.
You have awaken my passions of writing. Your assignments helped me to improve. Could you please send me your email contact for further chat and details.
Many thanks.
Incredible instructor. He was the most engaging instructor in the series specialization in my opinion. I loved the assignments. Loved the class. Really enjoyable and great for any writer.
This course was exactly what I wanted. it helped me be a better writer. I have improved every week because of all the interesting exercises. I enjoyed it tremendously.
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