Creative Writing Stage 2

Evening classes

Creative writing stage 2 with Pamela Freeman
Evening classes (once a week) for five weeks
6.30pm-8.30pm
Course fee: $395 (includes GST)

Next available course:

Tuesday 30 Mar 2010

Do you want to take your creative writing to the next level?
Do you want to unleash great creative writing flair in your short stories or novel?
Do you want practical feedback on your writing from an experienced teacher?
Do you want to learn from the best in a nurturing environment?

This course builds on the skills learnt in Creative Writing Stage 1 or Writing Books for Children. It’s ideal if you want to extend your skills or if you want to hone your completed pieces of writing.

This course is exercise-based. You will get practice in class and be given exercises to complete at home. Workshopping is an important way of learning about your skills and weaknesses and it will be a central part of the course.

Each week, you’ll focus on different tools and techniques to help make your creative writing shine.

You’ll cover:

how to find, create or extend your main characters and how to place them within a world of believable minor characters
how to make similar characters distinct on the page - what is your character’s ‘journey’?
structuring your story
climax and resolution: how these shape the final story - and how to write them!
the principles of scene development: dialogue, pacing, the manipulation of time, character interaction, management of exposition
the right process of structural editing, copy-editing and proof reading, using examples from both published and student work
and much more.

To keep you motivated and so you can continue workshopping, we’ll also provide you free access to an exclusive writing forum ONLY for former students of Creative Writing Stage 2. This will help you keep your writing momentum going in a supportive environment – it’s a safe place you can get feedback on you writing.

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Who presents this course?

Creative Writing Stage 2 is presented by Pamela Freeman, author of 21 books, the most recent of which, Full Circle (Book 3 of the Castings trilogy), is being published in the US, UK, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany as well as Australia. Pamela’s latest children’s book, Victor’s Challenge, was published in 2009 in Australia and the UK.

Pamela started as a children’s writer, and many of her books have been shortlisted for the State Literary Awards, the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards, the Koala Awards and the Wilderness Society Environment Awards. Pamela – who is also an accomplished script writer – has taught creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney for many years.

She has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Sydney and taught writing workshops around Australia for the National Book Council and various State Libraries. Pamela has a Doctor of Creative Arts in Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney. She is best known for her junior fantasy novels, Victor’s Quest and Victor’s Challenge and an associated fantasy series, The Floramonde Books (The Willow Tree's Daughter, Windrider and The Centre of Magic), as well as for Pole to Pole, a non-fiction book about Arctic and Antarctic animals.

Pamela has published numerous short stories and has spoken at various writers' festivals around the country. Her most recent book for young adults, The Black Dress, a fictional account of the childhood of Mary MacKillop in the Australia of the 1840s-1860s, won the NSW History Prize for Young People.

This course is held at the Sydney Writers' Centre in our professional harbourside training rooms.

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Course dates and fees

Creative writing stage 2 with Pamela Freeman
Evening classes (once a week) for five weeks
6.30pm-8.30pm
Course fee: $395 (includes GST)

Next available course:

Tuesday 30 Mar 2010

Rave reviews about Pamela Freeman: "Pamela is an excellent teacher and an incredible listener. Her ability to take in her students work, digest and deliver value in her feedback was outstanding. This has given me an empowered perspective from which to write but also from which to critique my own work." - Tim Lassig "Pamela Freeman is a fabulous teacher! She just has such a talent for it. It's rare that a good writer is also a good teacher. I am very inspired." - Iona Krefel "Pamela was excellent, very lively and helpful. She brought in a lot of personal experience, which was precisely what I'd hoped for." - Annie Chiv "Being taught by someone like Pamela who has had so much experience in the field of creative writing was very enlightening. The atmosphere was very relaxed and the course has really given me momentum with my writing by giving me the tools that I need to improve. "It was informative, encouraging and inspiring." - Caroline Betts

Rave reviews about Pamela Freeman:

"Pamela is an excellent teacher and an incredible listener. Her ability to take in her students work, digest and deliver value in her feedback was outstanding. This has given me an empowered perspective from which to write but also from which to critique my own work."
- Tim Lassig

"Pamela Freeman is a fabulous teacher! She just has such a talent for it. It's rare that a good writer is also a good teacher. I am very inspired."
- Iona Krefel

"Pamela was excellent, very lively and helpful. She brought in a lot of personal experience, which was precisely what I'd hoped for."
- Annie Chiv

"Being taught by someone like Pamela who has had so much experience in the field of creative writing was very enlightening. The atmosphere was very relaxed and the course has really given me momentum with my writing by giving me the tools that I need to improve.

"It was informative, encouraging and inspiring."
- Caroline Betts