Creative Writing
Diploma CRW16
Writing, Editing & Publishing

Anyone who enjoys writing will definitely improve their writing skills with this top quality, professional course.

Creative writing encourages you to become imaginative, inventive, resourceful, enterprising and sometimes it will help you to develop a daringly different view of life. In the Creative Writing Course you will take your ideas and develop them into many different finished forms. You may want other people to enjoy reading your work or you can write for yourself alone.

Creative writing encompasses an enormous field and this course takes you through all the aspects of writing known as ‘creative’. This includes writing character sketches, short stories, children’s stories, non-fiction, biographies, plays, poetry, human interest pieces, and so much more. But it doesn't stop there. Most creative writing courses teach you the foundation skills then you're off on your own. This course is much more practical and takes you further into the world of writing as a business. You learn how to write for profit and how to develop your writing so that you can make a living off it.

This is one of the best courses in creative writing you can do. If you’ve always wanted to write but didn’t know where to start, then this is the course for you.

Career opportunities include: Fiction Writer, Short Story Writer, Non-Fiction Writer, Poet, Children's Writer, Script Writer, Media Writer, Novelist.

Industries include: publishing, media, education, corporate.

Writers plan and write literary or other written work for publication or performance. Writers may create original pieces of written work such as poetry, novels, short stories, biographies, plays, or film, radio and television scripts. They may also write for multimedia distribution, such as CD-ROMs and the internet. A writer may:

• choose themes or subjects for written work, conduct research into the subject and gather background material
• plan and organise material and write the work
• revise or edit the work, making sure that the style is consistent, there is proper development of the theme, plot and characterisation, and there is correct referencing
• set out the original manuscript so that it is clear and legible and submit the work to a publisher
• work with other specialists, such as scriptwriters, software developers, graphic designers and illustrators, to create multimedia works.

Writers may specialise in:

• fiction writing
• general interest non-fiction
• journalism
• children's books
• story writing
• poetry
• educational textbook writing
• corporate writing
• copywriting
• autobriographies
• technical writing and document

Work may be commissioned by a book or magazine publisher, a theatre, film or television production company, or radio or television station or network. Alternatively, work may be sold by the writer or a literary agent acting on the writer's behalf.