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Creative Writing: So You Want to Be an Author?
Paul James McLerran
Average rating:4.3Number of reviews:(3)
As a professional writer, editor, and teacher, I'll teach your students how to improve their creative writing abilities. Students can join any time and will write (and share) their short stories, novel ideas, and other works of fiction.
Class experience
This is a class for students who love writing fiction, and especially for those who have ambitions of becoming professional writers. As a professional author, editor, and English teacher, I approach writing instruction with multiple sources of knowledge about how to write engaging fiction. We will focus on short story and novel writing. Students will work individually and together to outline, draft, and edit their own works. In addition to my own feedback and direct instruction, students will...
Each week we alternate between either (1) a lesson on a specific aspect of writing or (2) a feedback day in which students can share what they've written to get useful feedback from the other students and from me, a professional editor. Lessons will vary based on student needs but will cover: outlining, drafting, revising, active voice, imagery, "show; don't tell," vivid verbs, specific language, sentence variation, character development, plot development, setting description and theme.
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Average rating:4.3Number of reviews:(3)
Hi! My name is Paul McLerran. I teach creative writing to young people (ages 11-18). I have had a passion for writing since I was in middle school, and developed a passion for teaching as an adult. I am a licensed English Language Arts teacher and...
Group Class
$12
weekly1x per week
60 min
Completed by 13 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 11-16
5-15 learners per class
