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UNLOCKING CREATIVITY COURSE - LIVE
This four-week creative writing process at our Bronte Studio will enable you to tap into the power of your imagination and dramatically improve the quality of your writing and understanding of story structure.
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Dates, fees and earlybird specials for LIVE & ONLINE courses
who is the course suitable for?
Unlocking Creativity is suitable for complete beginners, professional writers and anyone in between. This four week course is the first stage in the pathway to achieving your writing goals, whatever they might be.
Over the four weeks you will learn essential tools and techniques that will unlock your creativity, kick start your writing and story telling ability.
Our unique interactive online component will add an invaluable daily dimension to your creative learning experience.
"Reading back over my first novel, I'm aware of a change at the point where I started doing the Writers Studio course (Unlocking Creativity). It's where my descriptions went from run of the mill to, I think, much more visual. No one can give you a secret formula for 'how to write', but the Writers Studio seems able to unleash the wild writer beast in us all! And what I learned there in 1998 has stayed with me."
Yasmin Boland - author - "Carole King is an Alien" and "All the Rage."
"If it wasn't for Unlocking Creativity and The Writers' Studio First Draft (Novel and Script) Courses I wouldn't be where I am today - an author about to be published. Thank you Roland for the inspiration."
L.A. Larkin has a two fiction book deal with Murdoch Books. The first novel, The Genesis Flaw, is now available in all bookstores including Kmart and Big W
"The lesson that has stayed with me is; not to be afraid. Someone who wants to write but hasn't, can be fearful. Afraid that they have nothing to say. Afraid they don't have the instinctive skills to write something worth reading.
That was certainly true in my case. But your classes taught me that everyone has a story inside them. You just need to learn the craft of writing in a nurturing environment - like The Writers' Studio - and your stories can be told. For me, that was an enlightening and liberating lesson."
Matt Sherring - Co-Writer of The Killer Elite. Soon to be released staring Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Ben Mendelsohn and Robert De Niro
The structure for the four weeks is as follows:
In Week One you will do a series of exercises that will give you tools and techniques to tap into the power of your imagination.
In Week Two you will learn how to create emotion in your writing, using bricks of detail. This will help you connect with your reader and bring your characters to life.
In Week Three you will be introduced to the character journey, how story structure works and you will start writing scenes. You will also learn how to build images into your work, one of the fundamental building blocks of fiction.
In Week Four you will write a guided five scene short story.
By the end of the course
When you complete the four-week process you will have:
- Discovered the joy of writing from your imagination
- Learnt how to connect with the characters you are writing and make them come alive on the page
- Developed an understanding of how classic story structure works
- Learnt how to get ideas, concepts and images out of your head and onto the page
- Found your writing voice
- Dramatically improved the quality of your writing
breakthrough tools and techniques
Most people are amazed at how much their writing improves from the very first session. They discover that their writing is far better than they could have imagined and they have more to say than they ever thought possible. As Albert Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Even though the course is fiction-based and a lead-in to the Novel and Script First Draft Course, it is a complete course in itself.
Many people, after completing Unlocking Creativity, have gone on to have their work published, including novels, short stories, articles, short films, feature films and non-fiction books.
The tools and techniques you learn will dramatically improve your writing and your relationship to the creative process. Whether it be fiction writing, journalism, academia, film, television, advertising, the corporate world or for your own pleasure.
IN ADDITION TO THE FACE-TO-FACE LIVE CLASSES
Please note, the process doesn't stop when you leave each class.
Daily at-home exercises and our unique interactive online Writers' Board will keep the learning process alive and fun for you at home between the live sessions.
Unlocking Creativity is very much a "doing" process. If you do the work, you will learn to create the magic on the page.
Students who make use of the Writers' Board are amazed by its benefits. As well as receiving feedback on one piece of work per week from your tutor online, you will also learn to give and receive feedback from other course participants. It is password protected and only available to the Unlocking Creativity particpants.
It is a wonderful learning tool and discipline. To become a better writer, you need to become a better and discerning reader. The Writers' Board will also help keep you inspired throughout the week and ensure the learning continues at home and will help you create the most important quality a writer needs - a writing habit.
Class size: 14 - 15
The classes are held on:
Wednesday evenings: 6.30pm - 9.30pm at The Writers' Studio premises in Bronte.
WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE FROM THIS COURSE
Four three-hour face-to-face workshops and comprehensive Course Workbook (included in course fee)
Plus at home writing exercises using our unique interactive online Writers' Board that will give you an invaluable daily extra-dimension to your creative learning experience.
Please note: If you are unable to attend a live class over the four week course, your can do that week's course work online.
UNLOCKING CREATIVITY COURSE OUTCOMES
During the course you will:
• Unlock the power of your unconscious. Develop your creative potential and build confidence in your writing ability.
• Find your voice and learn the tools and techniques to create the stories you want to write.
• Experience the creative joy and fun of writing from your imagination. You'll learn to get out of your own way and make the process of writing fun and exciting. This is one of the keys to unlocking your creativity.
• Discover what is stopping you from writing to your potential. Overcome writers' block and learn to silence your inner critic. When you free your imagination, your writing has that quality that makes other people want to read what you have written.
• Learn how to create images that evoke emotion in your readers. Images are one of the fundamental building blocks of fiction. Evoking emotions in your readers is one of the key elements in creating powerful fiction.
• Develop the ability to draw readers into your fictional world and keep them there.
• Discover the power of using significant detail, the lifeblood of good writing. Learning to use detail effectively, will have an immediate, powerful impact on your writing.
• Be introduced to how story structure works. You will learn how story structure exists to reveal character. They are two sides of the same coin.
• In the final class you will write a guided short story to demonstrate the power of combining your imagination with classic story structure.
testimonials
People from all walks of life and with all levels experience are amazed at how much they get out of the Unlocking Creativity process.
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"I had already completed my first book and was struggling to keep writing. I used to sit at my PC for hours on end staring at the blank screen waiting to be granted the inspiration to write – as if inspiration came from some mystical source outside of myself. What a load of bollocks that turned out to be.
Unlocking Creativity at The Writers' Studio taught me that the inspiration to write comes from the process of writing itself, not from thinking about writing and that all I had to do was silence my inner critic (which is normally very loud and swears a lot), keep my pen moving and allow myself to write junk. Now as I sit down to write, so long as I have these three basic ‘rules’ going on in my head, I can write and am constantly amazed at what appears on the page.
Writing like this is coming from a different place, that secret place inside us where the magic lives. It all sounds so terribly simple – and strangely enough, it is. Turns out writing doesn’t have to be that torturous hair-pulling affair after all.
I loved Unlocking Creativity so much, I returned and did it a second time and will definitely do it again (and again). The support and encouragement from Roland, Kathleen and your fellow writers is inspirational and hugely motivational.
No matter how experienced or inexperienced a writer you are, UC will blow you away with its simplicity and its power. It’s the best thing I did for my writing and the best thing I did for myself."
Ali Whitelock, author of "Poking Seaweed with a Stick and Running Away From The Smell."
"The course has been a real turning point for me. I learnt more about creative writing than I did in my degree or in my post grad studies. Which really says something about how much I learnt in 4 weeks. The course showed me that I could find it within me - the "it" being the words, the images, the emotions that had been bogged down in utter self doubt. This course gets you connected with your deepest passion."
Jacinta Walpole
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