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Creative Writer Level 3: Building Your Craft
Builds on Level 2 & 3 or can stand alone for a writer with comparable experience. The thirty-six week syllabus covers fiction with an emphasis on technique, precision, and showing action (rather than explaining), and poetry in 18 weeks each. The fiction section focuses on character development. The poetry section reviews rhyme, meter, line breaks, sound, and word choice by using a published poem, then continues with a collection of poetry-writing assignments.
The Creative Writer is a reprint of a 1979 classic series that provides an excellent counterpoint to Writing With Skill’s non-fiction or can be used as stand-alone courses. Step-by-step, very thorough instruction through the creative writing process is provided for both fiction and poetry. There is also guidance in Level 1 (Five-Fingered Exercises) for becoming a mentor. Each level contains 36 detailed and focused lessons; 18 for fiction, 18 for poetry. All instruction is written directly to the student but pages at the end of each section are directed to the mentor (to encourage and subtly direct your student).
Level 1 (Five Finger Exercises) covers the basics of story writing and introduces poetry. Level 2 (Essential Ingredients) covers plot, characters, dialogue, point of view, and setting, while poetry includes rhyme, meter, line breaks, and sound/word choice. Level 3 (Building Your Craft) is fiction instruction and emphasizes technique, precision, showing action, and character development; poetry reviews and continues basic elements of poetry. Level 4 (Becoming a Writer) reviews all skills, covers advanced ones, and focuses on publication.
Product Format: | Softcover Book |
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Grades: | 7-9 |
Brand: | Well-Trained Mind Press |
ISBN: | 9781933339573 |
Length in Inches: | 10 |
Width in Inches: | 7.25 |
Height in Inches: | 0.75 |
Weight in Pounds: | 1.45 |