Writers’ Nook: The Joy of Creative Writing
Tory Anderson
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In this on-going class young writers will grow in the art of creative writing through study and practice.
Class Experience
US Grade 5 - 8
In this class students will expand their creative writing skills by looking closely at examples of successful authors to understand what they are doing and how they are doing it. Additionally students will respond to writing prompts to discover and exercise their own creative possibilities. In-class writing will be expanded to out-of-class writing to allow further development of ideas and techniques. Students will have the opportunity to share their writing projects with the class where they...
Students will increase their understanding of the following elements of good creative writing: theme, plot development, character development, and world building. Students will learn basic formatting techniques for short stories and novels. Students will learn the art of the sentence.
Homework Offered
Homework will include: writing on personal writing projects; writing on writing prompts assigned in class; reading short stories and novel excerpts as assigned in class.1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Grades Offered
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Available times
Pacific
Meet the teacher
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Receiving a master’s degree in English from BYU with an emphasis in creative writing was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with all things creative: novels, plays, movies, painting, music, dance, origami, cosplay, juggling, computer games,...
Group Class
$12
weekly1x per week
50 min
Average rating:4.8Number of reviews:(16)
Completed by 139 learners
Live video meetings
Ages 10-15
3-10 learners per class
