Do you have story ideas but don’t know where to start? Do you want to create plots that are engaging and interesting to read? Do you want to see your work published and come to life? Then this dramatic writing course is for you.
Learn to write drama, and stimulate the readers emotions in this dramatic writing course, learn more about the mechanics of writing, develop your capacity to communicate more clearly and effectively and explore opportunities to turn your passion into a rewarding job
What type of writing can benefit from this course?
- This course will help you no matter what style of writing you do, or where in the world you live.
- Short stories
- Poems
- Novels
- Screen plays etc.
Dramatic writing can be useful in all of these. This course includes lessons looking at many different writing styles (including screen writing) and allows you to apply them to your own work.
Dramatic Writing Course Outline
There are 8 lessons in this course:
- Introduction
- Motivation
- Typing Time
- Types of Writing : Reflection, Exposition, Description, Explanation, Argument
- Making Decisions about what to Write
- Know your stuff
- The concept
- Synopsis
- Keeping a Notebook
- Process of Story Development
- Planning a Story
- Developing your Voice
- Useful terms
- Characters
- Developing the characters
- Building Characters
- Main Characters
- Minor Characters
- Theme & Genre
- Developing a Theme
- Universal Themes
- Sub Themes
- Creating Conflict
- Names
- Plot Development
- First Decisions
- Ambience
- The End of a Story
- Types of Dramatic Story: Memoirs, Biographies, Reflective Stories, Historical etc
- Weaving a Story
- Techniques: Action, Emotion, Mirror; Parallel lives, Palm Cards
- Writers Block
- Developing a Story Line
- Things to Avoid
- Different Approaches: Dialectic, Transition
- How a Character Affects a Plot
- How Plot Affects Genre
- Goals
- Consequences
- Motive
- Flashbacks and Flashforwards
- Writing a Dramatic Short Story
- Main Character and Antagonist
- Creating a Sense of Place
- Counting Out Your Story
- Short Stories
- Developing Sub Plots
- Method
- Plants
- Activity
- Writing a Chapters for a Dramatic Work (Novel or Play)
- Getting Published
- Writing Resources
- Writing as a Business
- Vanity Publishing
- Dealing with Publishers
- Creating a Chapter or Segment of a larger work
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Aims
- Define and develop an understanding of dramatic writing.
- Develop methods of developing characters in dramatic writing.
- Define different genres and develop themes for dramatic writing.
- Develop techniques for developing your plot.
- Describe techniques for weaving a story.
- Develop a short story using dramatic writing.
- Develop a chapter of dramatic writing.
- Determine how to develop sub plots.