Beginners Creative Writing Class (Short Story) (Skillshare)

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Beginners Creative Writing Class (Short Story) (Skillshare)

Hello! Our names are Hannah and Alecz! This class is going to be offering information on certain topics in short story writing, such as point of view, tense, introducing your story and your characters, how to use dialogue and dialect, and how to end your story. We’ll also be going through some basic grammar rules that will help to improve your writing and allow your story to flow smoothly with little error.

In those videos, we will be covering how to format dialogue and how to use commas, semi-colons, colons, and dashes.
For the project for this class, we encourage you to already have a story or part of a story written (somewhere between 500-1000 words) before watching the videos so that the class can serve as revision techniques. However, if you’re new to creative writing and want to learn more about it first, then you’re also more than welcome to watch the videos first. Just keep in mind that you won’t be able to engage with the class as much if you don’t have anything written yet. Please click on the project assignment sheet to the right to read more about this class project!

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