Getting Publish Ready
What you’ll need to join
Ideally at least two hours of commitment per week in addition to the scheduled in-person fortnightly workshops. Access to a word processing software such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice. Basic English writing and speaking skills required. Access to Internet outside of classes will help but is not essential.
What you’ll learn
Each course will explore practical writing techniques in the craft and production of published writing. There will be a one- hour taught segment on the weekly subject matter and one hour for writing exercises and editing and workshopping outside writing.
Weekly Subject Area
Week One: Skills Refresh and Project Timelines
Week Two: Historical Overview of Writing and Story Telling
Week Three: Language – Enhanced Development
Week Four: Literary Theory Overview and Practise
Week Five: Professional Feedback, Format and Editing Skills
Week Six: Retaining Motivation and Accountability
Week Seven: Self-Publish, Publisher or Agent? Contracts Overview.
Week Eight: KDP, IngramSpark, Lulu and more
Week Nine: Book Ready Promotions and Social Media
Week Ten: The Self-Employed Writer – Earning
Week Eleven: Promotional Writing and Marketing
Week Twelve: Creating Your Mark and Celebrating Success
The Creative Writing Workshop
The workshop format to our classes, creates a safe environment to experiment, critique and create new writing. Each week we will carry out warm up exercises, critical reading discussions, creative workshopping and you will be provided with (non-compulsory) weekly homework prompts to encourage and expand your learning beyond the session.
The course objectives are to:
- Identify writing goals and ways of working to achieve them
- Give and receive feedback
- Differentiate the elements required in storytelling and communicating
- Identify the skills of creative writing and reading/watching to be read
- Understand and produce writing to be read and polished for publishing
- Gain a practical understanding and read various examples of published writing
- Learn industry methods of publishing to aid decision making
- Write, write and write some more…
How the course is assessed
No formal assessment. Observation, discussion, and tutor feedback. Upon joining the course you will receive access to a designated google classroom space with the resources and ability to share work and obtain and provide feedback to your cohort.