Welcome to The Wolf Pirate Project's Beginning Writer's Class. If you found your way here, it's because you've shown an interest in creative writing. Whether you are interested in these lessons to help you with school work or to dabble in ideas of how to put your daydreaming into a creative story on paper, this simple course will help you understand the most basic of the tenants used in writing creatively. It breaks down the concept of creative writing to its component parts, explaining what creative writing is, what skill sets are necessary for successful writing, how to improve them, and the basic rules of English that publishers look for. You can take these classes on your own or with the help of an editor listed in the right-hand margin. No fees are associated with this class. You will simply need a PDF reader to download the lessons and your imagination. Shall we begin?
Beginning Writer's Class
The Wolf Pirate Project
Mentoring writers and readers for the promotion of literature as an art form.
Unit One: Introduction to Creative Writing
Introduction to Literature: A quick overview of creative writing
Lesson One: Creative Writing: Explains the difference between creative and noncreative writing, and the components of what writers need to be successful in their craft.
Lesson Two: Choosing What to Write: Describes categories of creative writing and how to target your audience.
Exercise 1: Creative Writing
Lesson Three: Poetry: A concise review of poetry and how it can be used to satisfy the purpose of all creative writing.
Exercise 2: Poetry
Lesson Four: Screen and Play Writing: An explanation of how a screenplay can assist any writer in outlining a piece of creative writing.
Exercise 3: Screen and Play Writing
Lesson Five: Nonfiction and Research: Instruction on how to incorporate facts into creative writing.
Exercise 4: Nonfiction and Reserach
Lesson Six: Short Stories:Key essentials of writing a short story are explained.
Exercise 5: Short Story
Lesson Seven: Novels: A brief review of what a novel is.
Lesson Eight: Creating Characters: A discussion on the importance of creating credible characters in creative writing.
Exercise 6: Creating Characters
Lesson Nine: Plot and Conflict: Introduction on crafting an intriguing conflict and entertaining plot.
Exercise 7: Plot and Conflict
Lesson Ten: Point of View: Important concepts of perspective narrative and point-of-view in a story.
Exercise 8: Point-of-View
Lesson Eleven: Active versus Passive Voice: An explanation of how to write narrative in the active voice.
Exercise 9: Active versus Passive Voice
Lesson Twelve: Show and Tell: Describing how important writing with imagery outweighs dictating how it should be viewed is.
Exercise 10: Show and Tell
Lesson Thirteen: Purple Prose: A warning of how flowery, showboat writing is frowned upon.
Exercise 11: Purple Prose
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