COMPLETE Creative Writing
A practical multi-genre course in fiction, poetry, drama, and creative non-fiction
What you'll learn
- Explain the defining features and craft demands of fiction, poetry, drama, and creative non-fiction.
- Apply core writing techniques such as scene construction, imagery, lineation, dialogue, structure, and reflection in original pieces.
- Analyse literary devices and specialised craft choices to explain how they shape meaning, tone, pace, and reader response.
- Develop and refine a personal writer's voice across multiple genres and writing situations.
- Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of drafts using clear criteria for clarity, coherence, originality, form, and effect.
- Create scaffolded examples of varied writing styles, including a short story, a small set of poems, a dramatic scene, and a creative non-fiction piece.
- Prepare a professional creative writing portfolio and identify suitable outlets for sharing or submitting work, including publications, podcasts, and digital platforms.
This course includes
- 5h 54m of learning
- 35 lessons
- 8 quizzes
- Access on mobile and desktop
- Full lifetime access
- Certificate of completion
Course content
8 sections • 36 lectures • 5h 54m total length
- The four genres and how the course works 9m
- Generating ideas from observation, memory, and research 11m
- Finding and testing your writer’s voice 12m
- Writing routines, draft mindset, and feedback habits 11m
- Quiz: Starting Your Creative Writing Practice 6 questions
- Showing, telling, and sensory detail 8m
- Character, desire, and conflict 10m
- Scene construction, pace, and tension 10m
- Imagery, figurative language, and symbolic pattern 10m
- Quiz: Core Craft Techniques and Literary Devices 6 questions
- Short story architecture 11m
- Narration, viewpoint, and distance 12m
- Dialogue and subtext in fiction 10m
- Revising fiction for clarity and effect 12m
- Quiz: Writing Fiction 6 questions
- Image, line break, and stanza 10m
- Sound, rhythm, and poetic form 10m
- Free verse, persona, and poetic sequence 11m
- Editing poems and assembling a small set 11m
- Quiz: Writing Poetry 6 questions
- Dramatic action and scene structure 10m
- Character through speech, silence, and subtext 10m
- Stage directions, space, and performability 10m
- Revising scripts for page and performance 11m
- Quiz: Writing Drama 6 questions
- Truth, memory, and ethical framing 10m
- Personal essay structure and narrative arc 10m
- Scene, reflection, and exposition in memoir-style writing 11m
- Voice, research, and advanced non-fiction forms 11m
- Quiz: Writing Creative Non-Fiction 6 questions
- Evaluating strengths and weaknesses across genres 11m
- Submission opportunities and professional practice 10m
- Podcasts, readings, and digital sharing 11m
- Building a professional creative writing portfolio 10m
- Quiz: Revision, Sharing, and Professional Portfolio 6 questions
- Final assessment: COMPLETE Creative Writing 12 questions
Requirements
- No previous creative writing study is required
- Ability to read and write in English at an intermediate level
- Willingness to complete regular writing exercises and longer drafting assignments
- Access to a notebook or word processor for drafting, revising, and storing work
Description
COMPLETE Creative Writing is a practical, genre-spanning course for anyone who feels a strong urge to write and wants clear guidance to turn that impulse into finished work. Across fiction, poetry, drama, and creative non-fiction, learners build craft through short exercises, focused lessons, and substantial projects that develop real writing habits.
The course moves from foundations to advanced technique: finding a writer's voice, shaping scenes and poems, writing dialogue and dramatic action, handling memory and truth, and revising with purpose. Review quizzes reinforce major concepts, but progress is measured chiefly through authentic writing assignments that produce a growing body of original work.
By the end, learners will have drafted work in all four genres, analysed strengths and weaknesses in their own writing, and prepared a professional portfolio with clear options for sharing or submitting their work, including publications, podcasts, and digital platforms. A certificate of completion is awarded on finishing the course.
Who this course is for
- Aspiring and developing writers of any background who feel a creative pull and want structured practice across multiple genres, from complete beginners to more experienced writers returning to craft.