Learn Online: Creative Writing Workshop

Creative Writing Workshop Write. Learn. Belong. Tap into the creative writer within you. This class is geared for anxious beginners and uninspired writers, so whether you are a beginner or experienced writer, this writing workshop is for you. You will write similes, metaphors, alliteration, and more through practice and daily writing exercises with a real, live, interactive, online teacher you can talk with. You will learn specific methods to craft poetry and prose. Creative Writing Workshop offers you a great source of inspiration, a wealth of concrete examples, and the step by step guidance you need in order to write creatively. I will show you writing prompts and samples from my own journal to provide you a model, and to give you the support you need. Bring a desire to learn, and a commitment to write every day throughout the entire course.. You will also be given honest, but gentle and constructive feedback. Imagine composing your own Writing Journal full of fresh and exciting prompts, poems, and ideas to keep you writing. Write, learn, and belong to the community of writers here at Universal Class. ~Discover the joys of writing. Join us now.

1. Students will master the discipline of daily writing by writing 30 minutes daily, 5 days a week, for 5 weeks. This is crucial to your success.
2. Students will learn how to summon their muse to get the creative juices flowing by following lessons and assignments.
3. By the end of the six week course, students will compose a series of poems and prose, creating a writing journal filled with strong imagery and literary elements.

Class Lessons to be Covered
Lesson One: Inside This Pen
Step One: The Pen Occasion
Step Two: Purchase a Writing Journal
Step Three: Reading and Writing To be a Writer, You Must Write Your Voice is Like a Snowflake Prior Knowledge Voice The Single Best Writing Tip Reading Response
Step Four: 30 Minute Daily Write It's Okay to Write Junk Objectivity Rules: Thirty Minutes Means Thirty Minutes Questions to Ask Yourself Before Writing Variety is More Than a Spice Paint a Picture With Words Imagery Ocean Play Tuesday at Lexington Market The End, Then What?

Lesson Two: Observation, Description, Simile and Metaphor I Am a Writer Speak Like a Writer Capture the Moment Fake Rain on an Aluminum Roof Ready? Click. Shoot. Daily Writing Check-Up Prompts Observation, Description, Simile and Metaphor Prompt 1: When Life gives You Lemons, Write a Sensory Descriptive Observation Simile and Metaphor: Cultural Experience: Prompt 3: Jazz up your writing with the "w" words Who, What, When, Where, Why and How Lexington market, Baltimore Prompt 4: Extended Metaphor Moon Journal Alliteration Onomatopoeia

Lesson Three Be an Ethnographer with Euphony and Cacophony prompt 6: Ethnographer for a Day! Create a poem from an Ethnography Report Prompt 7: Found Poem Prompt 8: Appropriated Poem Prompt 9: Cacophony Prompt 10: Euphony Hyperbole Things to Think About. Themes Make a List, Check it Twice The Beach Collection Prompt 11: Free association poetry Prompt 12: The Color Poem

Lesson Four Activate Your Schema
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone Prompt 13: The List In the Scheme of Things Inside the Wonderful World of Prepositions Prompt 14: Extend the List of Prepositions Neighborhood Mapping Tag, Your it: the Lost Art of Play Play

Lesson Five Journal Experience
Prompt 17: Daily Free Write Poem Photographic Memory Prompt 19: Museum Painting Evaluating Your Journal

*A good pen
*A journal
*Access to a computer and email
*Read other writers

1. Students will need a pen that feels good in the hand, a pen that fits in style and comfort, a pen that flows freely from the fingertips.

2. Students need to choose a Poetry Journal. It can be anything that feels good to write in, between 50-100 pages.

3. Suggested Reading: Read other writers as much and as often as you can.

Pass/Fail

1. Suggestions for improvement will be given, and students will be expected to edit and re-work their poems and prose to create improved final drafts out of their orginal writing.
2. Any student stealing another's work will be immediately dropped from the class.
3. Students must produce a minimum of five pages of original daily writing in their journals per week of class instruction, following the lessons and assignments. This is easy to do if you write at least 5 days out the week following the writing prompts.
4. Reading is optional, but highly suggested.