If this is the sort of writing you want to do, we can certainly help you achieve your ambitions. With this course you have 10 corrected assignments. This course covers everything you need to know for writing fiction in the widest sense. After the basic information of, setting up as a writer, developing your writing style, how to sell your writing, presenting your work and essential legal aspects, you go straight onto plotting, how to create realistic characters, write good dialogue and achieve the atmosphere you want. You cover the specialist types of fiction such as romance, thrillers, historicals, science fiction, children's stories etc.
Special attention is given to the writing of short stories - with a full module devoted to it.
You then progress to writing fiction for Radio and TV - media often overlooked by new writers, but which provides interesting and lucrative opportunities for those with talent and imagination. Finally you have the excellent advice in the Handbooks and the close personal supervision of your tutor in the 12 corrected assignments. On Writing a Novel', 'Writing the Category Romance', 'Information Research, 'Punctuation and Spelling' and 'Series and Sitcoms' plus cassette tape 'Voices', the writing of a radio play - 12 corrected assignments. If you want to concentrate on Novel and Short Story writing then this is the course for you. In the first seven modules you cover the basic information before going on to learn about the specific techniques of plotting, characterisation, dialogue, setting the scene etc.