Creative Writing Course Reviews

Unlocking Creativity

I’m going to revisit the exercises from the course regularly – push through and write even when I don’t feel like it. When I followed the warm ups I got into the flow. It’s amazing. I couldn’t recommend this course enough!

Now I’m going to continue to work on all my pieces, my play, my novel, my script – I’m going to push to get my work out there and get published!

Unlocking Creativity

My creativity has definitely been unlocked! I’m now journaling every day but that isn’t enough so I just enrolled in the Writers’ Studio six-week Character Development course. Can’t wait. My goal is to write a novel but I realise it’s a huge commitment and a complex process so I’ll start with this next course and see where it takes me. I thoroughly recommend the course!

Unlocking Creativity

Not only has this process allowed me to be vulnerable and creative again, but it has reignited a spark I thought was dead and buried. I’ve literally “let the pen flow” and been surprised and the results. I’m always someone who thrives with structure and process, so the way the course was laid out step by step was a perfect way for me to learn, and ultimately play.

Unlocking Creativity

I sincerely recommend this course, as it can also help you with your novel-writing process, just as it will help me. You’ll regain any confidence you thought you’d lost and understand that it’s all part of the creative process. I invite you to unlock your creativity.

Unlocking Creativity

The course has been excellent as well as challenging in all the right ways. The full breadth of emotions have been experienced!

I learnt that you can write something, even if you feel you can’t write anything!

It’s been wonderful to see everyone else’s progression and the varied, colourful worlds and characters they have brought to life. Big thank you to everyone for their generosity with what they have written and also taking the time to give such considered feedback.

Unlocking Creativity

This course has provided me (and my fellow writers) with practical know-how, the importance of structure, the necessity of establishing a daily writing routine, thoughtful feedback and ongoing encouragement. This course (and the next one I’m enrolled in) is something that I’ve been wanting to do for years but have hesitated due to self-doubt. I’m so glad that I finally took the proverbial leap of faith.

Unlocking Creativity

This four week creative writing course has been such a wonderful experience, and I’m so glad I bit the bullet and did it. It’s been so long since I’ve written anything creatively, let alone with any regularity, and the structure of the course has truly set the wheels in motion for me. I hope to build on what we’ve learned here, make writing a habit and see where it takes me from there!

Unlocking Creativity

I loved the structure of the course. It was great to read the reflections on self-criticism, perfectionism and attitude at the start. I felt this was such a great way to begin- to go, ok, everyone feels like this, shall we put that aside and get started and see what happens? Who knows what? I, we, may surprise ourselves. Actually, reading the array of stories that emerged, I’m sure there will be more stories to come in whatever form they take.

I’ve loved reading the pieces from first to last. The growth in confidence came from the freedom to explore in a safe space. The participant feedback was insightful and there was a generosity there that blew me away. There is a lot of wonderful writing ahead for all of us.

Putting the lessons of the course into practice will be the next challenge but I’m ready to go to the next level. I’m feeling like the next year will be exactly what I want it to be – the year of the first draft!

Unlocking Creativity

I commenced the writers’ course not knowing what to expect. Eager to see how this would shape my writing and ultimately lead me to the promised land of the written word.

It has been an absolute joy, and for me, what I have found most useful has been knowing how structure and imagination intertwine and make possibilities. I have also enjoyed the works of my colleagues, the unseen faces whose works have touched me, enriched me, and from whom I have the utmost regard.

Unlocking Creativity

I am just coming to the end of a writing course, organized and run beautifully by Writers’ Studio. An Australian firm with wonderful tutors. I chose to do the course Online as it suited my routine and thought process.

I had all these ideas running around in my head and through the constant encouragement of my wonderful tutor and the staff constantly telling us all to write it down even if I thought it was junk, I finally had the nerve to get it down on paper. The process of writing a story has so many steps to make the story seem real and worthwhile reading was an eyeopener for me and made me realise that I needed all the help I could get.

I can see myself writing my short stories and possibly that script. Writers’ Studio has given me the confidence to give it a go.

Unlocking Creativity

I wrote so many different things and I am really proud of everything I wrote. I am excited to write a lot more, I want to do more of these courses because it really forced me to follow through and actually complete my writing instead of being waylaid by procrastination and that is what I need I need a sense of pressure that forces me to act and accomplish. I fully intend to continue writing. I still agree with what I said in my writing goals, which is that I want to try writing everything. I have absolutely loved this course, and I am very excited and inspired for all my future writing projects.

Unlocking Creativity

It amazed me how the stories were all so different even when given the same writing task. What an incredible group of imaginative minds. The feedback giving and receiving was a positive experience. I am looking forward to writing down my ideas and keeping the pen moving.

Unlocking Creativity

The Unlocking Creativity course has been incredibly enlightening for me because I can finally see how I can break the mammoth task of writing a novel in to bite size pieces and work on it one day at a time…this is incredibly inspiring because I now actually believe I will get my first draft completed!

To this end, I’ve enrolled in the 6 week character development course and the 10 month first draft course – actually I quickly committed before my mind came up with a reason not to!! I feel inspired and you know what ? for the first time in my working life I’m doing this purely for the love of being swept up in the creative process and am deliberately letting go of having any outcome or goal for any book that may result….it feels like freedom.

Unlocking Creativity

I will absolutely take another course with The Writers Studio in the future. What a fab, rewarding, challenging month it’s been.

Unlocking Creativity

This course has lived up to its name. For so long I’ve wanted to write and felt like any droplet of creativity was dried up within me. Now I feel as though there is some creativity still living beneath the surface of my skin.

The structure of the course exercises and the support of our tutor, and my fellow students, has allowed me to feel safe as I take these first steps into creative writing. Suddenly the prospect of writing a novel seems a lot more real than it ever has before.

Feedback is one of the best tools for progressing my writing. I see that reading other students’ stories and providing feedback has been an enormous learning tool. As is the feedback I have received.

Overall, this course has taught me the importance of structure, which is a new concept for me, and I see its incredible benefit in writing successfully. When I started this course I did not think I had the imagination to write any fiction. Now I feel like, yes – I can do this.

Unlocking Creativity

Unlocking Creativity has been exactly what I needed right now!

I’ve learned so much about the craft and the process of writing. The feedback process — both giving and receiving — has been transformative. This process teaches us to shift from just emotionally reacting to writing­­ — to an analytical understanding of what works. The whole process has deeply stretched my mind and my range in understanding the CRAFT of writing.

Unlocking Creativity

This course has allowed me to be more brave in my writing. What I valued most of was the encouragement I got from my peers. It was so wonderful to hear how my writing had impacted others and to talk about other people's writing with them. I feel empowered to continue my journey of writing - and achieve my dream of writing a novel! I feel like I can do it!

Unlocking Creativity

This course was one of the most uplifting and positive experiences I have ever had. I can't thank you all enough for bringing me back to the schoolyard where my imagination was the only limitation to ambition and the future. The positivity and group love wrapped around me like an aura not experienced since my younger days with friends at parties and gatherings.

Unlocking Creativity

I can't recommend this course enough, I think you would love it and get a lot out of it.

Unlocking Creativity

I now understand that structure doesn't constrain you but rather liberates your creativity. I was paralysed by anxiety and overwhelmed by the unwieldy nature of my novel. I will take the highly positive experience of the course with me. I loved it, do it!

Unlocking Creativity

This course opened my eyes to a whole new world of writing I didn't imagine I was capable of. I wanted an opportunity to get my imagination and creative juices flowing and I did that plus realised I had a knack for fictional stories too.

Unlocking Creativity

I'm finally doing what I said I would do, and I'm no longer afraid of failure.

Unlocking Creativity

Like going for a swim in the ocean, you never regret it and there's no point delaying jumping in! You don't need anything except a pen, paper and a willingness to be open.

Unlocking Creativity

The Unlocking Creativity course exceeded my expectations and has given me confidence to move forward with my writing of a short story that was merely a concept 6 months ago.

Unlocking Creativity

I have learnt so much about writing, myself and human nature in this course - the principles are all interchangeable. I have learned to express the ordinary extra-ordinarily. Thank you!

Unlocking Creativity

My writing tutor and the fellow students have been incredibly generous with their feedback and I’m very grateful for having that nurturing space where I could post my writing without fear. I feel my writing has improved as a result and I’ve seen so much growth in the other students too. After the course I feel more motivated to continue with my sci-fi novel.

Unlocking Creativity

The course structure was so well designed, like a hand guided journey and the progressive nature totally worked for me. The feedback mechanism on the course was so effective that I oddly (happily) felt like I knew the tutor, Ray, given his very thoughtful engagement. As a fully online course- damn impressive and highly recommended!

Unlocking Creativity

I am so very surprised by how much my writing and my approach to writing has changed over these four weeks. It’s amazing what I have learnt. One of the coolest things has been seeing how everyone’s writing changed and evolved throughout the course and how there were some short snippets of writing that made me get teary or scared or laugh! There is so much talent out there. I just feel inspired!

Unlocking Creativity

I have had the most incredible journey the last 4 weeks, opened my mind and tapped into a creative level I never knew. The process of each element was astounding. The structure and breakdown were easy to follow, and I had learnt so much just by following the tools of how to put the puzzles of my story together through knowing which piece goes where and why. I loved everything about this course. It has given me so much more confidence to take my writing to the next level.

Unlocking Creativity

I have recently finished a writing course that I have enjoyed immensely. Along the way, I have learned many valuable lessons; one has struck me as vital. The idea of unlocking your imagination by keeping the pen moving and allowing yourself to connect with your imagination has been nothing short of a revelation. I really do feel like the process frees up your spirit, letting you wander deeper and further into who you really are. I feel more motivated and inspired than ever and can’t wait to continue this most wonderful of journeys.

Unlocking Creativity

Dragging my pen across the page without stopping, letting it flow from that wellspring called the universe, getting out of the way essentially of the great creative energy that we all possess in equal portion. It gave me so much freedom that until now I had never allowed myself when writing. I was not alone on this journey. The support and feedback from my tutor and other writers on the course have been so uplifting. I have seen growth in everyone and it comforts me to know that if we trust ourselves and follow the process magic does happen.

Unlocking Creativity

I found myself looking forward to doing the course each day, as it seemed to become the highlight of my day. It has given me purpose and meaning, and felt a sense of fulfilment I haven’t yet felt in a very long time. It fills my soul. I want to make space for honing my craft and become a better writer.

Unlocking Creativity

The four week course has undoubtedly confirmed, my want and love to write. Completing this course has only enticed me, to pursue the learning of fiction writing further, I can stubbornly say that I refuse to give it up! I am addicted to the wondrous feelings, I gratefully accept.

Unlocking Creativity

I’ve reached the final day of the Unlocking Creativity course. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I began four weeks ago, but it’s been a wonderful experience; I’m so glad I took a chance on myself! I’m finishing the course with a renewed appreciation for the joy writing brings me and a new confidence that perhaps I really can write that first draft.

Unlocking Creativity

It was something of a revelation to discover that artistry is only half the picture, and that structuring a story is equally important. A major takeaway for me was learning that there are story principles that resonate with the human psyche. Knowing this has left me feeling more empowered. How ironic that the very thing I thought might restrict my writing has actually expanded it.