Overview
The Fiction Writing Course mainly focuses on helping you to become a good fiction writer and guiding you on how to write books, short stories, plays, and novels through explaining some fiction writing tips revealed by professional fiction writers.
In this online fiction writing course, you will learn from the very basics of writing and keeping a journal to developing your ideas, writing and editing your own concepts, learning different approaches to research for creating characters and events.
On completion of the course, you will have gained fiction writing skills and become knowledgeable about story elements that give ideas on subjects to use for your stories or books and eventually develop your own, unique writing styles.
Who is this Course for?
If you are enthusiastic about becoming a fiction writer or science fiction writer and learning how to conduct research for obtaining factual information and authentic detail, you will surely benefit from this course.
Entry Requirement:
- This course is available to all learners, of all academic backgrounds.
- Learners should be aged 16 or over to undertake the qualification.
- Good understanding of English language, numeracy and ICT are required to attend this course.
Method of Assessment:
Upon completion of the course, you will be required to sit for an online multiple-choice quiz based assessment, which will determine whether you have passed the course (60% pass mark). The test will be marked immediately and results will be published instantly.
CPD Certificate from Course Gate
At the successful completion of the course, you can obtain your CPD certificate from us. You can order the PDF certificate for £9 and the hard copy for £15. Also, you can order both PDF and hardcopy certificates for £22.
Career path
Writing is an extended and diverse professional field, and professional writers are broadly employed in different industries with a lucrative salary, ranging from academia to business, and media/journalism to entertainment. Completing the course will offer you a recognised qualification and support you with multiple ways to break into the industry and start a writing career.
Course Curriculum
Fiction Writing Course | |||
Module 1 Part 1 – Getting Ideas and How to Develop Them | 00:30:00 | ||
Module 1 Part 2 – Inspiration and Finding The Time | 00:30:00 | ||
Module 2 – What It Means To Be A Writer | 00:30:00 | ||
Module 3 – Characters | 00:30:00 | ||
Module 4 – Plotting and Story Construction | 01:00:00 | ||
Module 5 – Theme, Templates & Outlining | 00:30:00 | ||
Module 6 – Show Don’t Tell | 00:30:00 | ||
Module 7 – Punctuation, Grammar and some Basic Writing Rules | 00:30:00 | ||
Module 8 – Scene Structure, Exposition and Story Rules | 00:30:00 | ||
Module 9 – Chapter Structure, Vision and Focus | 00:30:00 | ||
Module 10 – Fast Writing Without Fear or Censure | 00:30:00 | ||
Module 11 – Editing, Re-writing & Polishing | 00:30:00 | ||
Module 12 – Finishing, Submission & Publication | 00:30:00 | ||
Resources | |||
Resources – Fiction Writing Course | 00:00:00 | ||
Certificate and Transcript | |||
Order Your Certificates or Transcripts | 00:00:00 |
