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This short course will help you to develop your creative writing skills. It is taught online and requires approximately six hours a week study time. It is aimed at beginners and takes 12 weeks to complete. Start Writing Fiction runs throughout the year with start dates in February, May and October.
A215 Creative Writing is a 60-point, Level 2 course, presented over 32 weeks. It adopts the student-centred approach used by the best creative writing courses, offering you a range of strategies and possibilities to help you to develop as a writer. The emphasis is highly practical, with a range of exercises and activities designed to ignite and sustain the writing impulse.
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A363 Advanced Creative Writing is a 60 point level 3 course which develops students' writing ability by widening their generic range. The course works extensively on the forms introduced at level 2 - fiction, poetry and life writing - and supplements these with dramatic writing, showing students how to write for 3 media: stage, radio and film. By widening the range of possible outlets, students use this richer repertoire and greater variety of approaches to develop their individual writing style and voice. The course offers guidance on professional layouts and editorial methods, and is a natural progression after A215 Creative Writing. A full course description is available from the Study at the OU website.