Ice Trials: Level 4 Creative Writing
Want to advance your creative writing skills beyond the classroom and explore real fiction writing!
Writing opens doors, builds creativity, problem solving, empathy and changes the way you look at and see the world! We believe writing is a journey! Building rich language skills is the path....
Course Details:
This class is an advanced level creative writing class designed specially for keen student writers, who have completed Creative level 1-3, and want to take their skills to the next level.
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Dates: August 15th- 21st 2021 (7 day course)
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Price: 112 pounds
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Class time: 1:30pm (UK time)
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As with all of our classes students will be given personal feedback on their writing. Live feedback sessions can be booked throughout the course with the teacher, through the booking system the student course site. Feedback sessions are included in the course price.
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Miss a class? No problem. Students who miss a class will be sent a link to watch the lesson recording. They can still complete the writing challenge and book a feedback session with their teacher for extra support.
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How does it work? Students join the teacher each day for their live class. They will be set a writing challenge to finish after class and post to the shared writing board. Teachers and students write feedback on work posted. Students can also book 15 minute individual feedback and coaching sessions with the teacher for further guidance. Each class comes with a student Toolkit which has real author's examples, with planning and writing skills support.
How will the course benefit young writers?
This program is designed to motivate and inspire teen writers, helping them to develop their writers voice. Students will also build advanced writing and planning skills by exploring techniques used by real authors.
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Experienced writing teacher Lorna Day will be giving your child personal feedback every step of the way and helping them redraft and improve their work.
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The Ice Trials uses the thriller writing genre to help budding writers explore narrative voice and use powerful language tools to excite, thrill and pull the reader into the story.
In this course
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develop skills writing convincingly in the first person of a character to create a strong narrative voice.
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explore using character emotions to drive the story forward
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develop skills using sensory language effectively to bring the reader into the character's world
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practice extending similes to create a story (it was as if...)
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learn to implement advanced writing techniques used by professional authors today, to build mystery, suspense, pace and engage the reader in the story.
Reserve your Place now
This course is for keen teen writers. The writing level is intermediate-advanced. If you would like to discuss the course content with the teacher, please book a Zoom meeting on the link above. After paying for this course, we will contact you within 24 hours by email with the course registration details and course link.
This course is sold out. We keep group sizes small to maintain quality student teacher interaction. This course will run again as a weekly term club starting in Jan 2024. Contact us to join the waiting list.
