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Essential Tools

 

Level 2 courses

Extend your writing skills and confidence to make your writing shine. Each course includes a lecture from a Professional Writing tutor, tips from well-known authors, practical writing exercises, plus an opportunity to rate your writing.

 

Cost: £25 per course; fee includes entry to the Members' Room.

 

Coming soon...

How to write a synopsis: includes sample synopses for various genres and forms.

Developing character: the art of creating credible and effective characters.

How to write dialogue: for novelists and screenwriters.

Research for writers: where to go and how to start.

Writing press releases: a key tool for business writers – and for selling ideas.

Professional Advice

What writers mustn’t do is think "what would children like to read about?"…any writer has to write about what interests him.

Michael Morpurgo


Hot Topics

 

Improve your writing

MA Professional Writing at University College Falmouth, in conjunction with HERDA’s Higher Skills Creative Industries Project, is offering a range of one day courses for people who’d like to improve their writing skills for business.

 

Writing in recession: Sophie Parkin

Sophie Parkin tells Phil Williams how the recession of the early 90s prompted her to switch career – and how she started earning a living from writing.

 

Claim your cash

Have you filed a claim with the ALCS? If you've ever had anything published, they may be holding money for you. Click here to find out more.  

 

Robert Goddard

"It is important not to be disheartened."

 

Writing for teens

Meg Rosoff talked about writing for teens at the 2009 London Book Fair. Profwriting student Fiona Egglestone reports back.

Learn to write by the sea

 

Report and Proposal Writing

This hands-on one-day course is designed for busy professionals to help you write better marketing copy. Run by MA Professional Writing at University College Falmouth, in conjunction with HERDA’s Higher Skills Creative Industries Project, the course has been  created with solo practitioners, small and medium business, and business support organisations in mind.

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