Creative Writing - Let's Start with a Character - Arnold Library - Adult Learning

Schedule

Tue, 22 Apr, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Tue, 20 May, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Arnold Library | Nottingham, EN

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Key details
  • Date: 22 April - 20 May 2025
  • Sessions: Tuesdays: 6pm - 8pm
  • No. sessions: 5
  • Venue: Arnold Library, Nottingham
  • For ages: 19+
  • Group size: 5 - 15
  • Cost: FREE - £35

About this course

Learners will be taught to think about characterization and depth of character, along with the development of character. They will explore characters’ back stories and other characters’ perceptions of them. They will begin to consider the use of plot, as well of setting and action to learn more about their character. By the end of the course, they should feel like the character they have created is real!

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

  • To recall writing techniques
  • To understand importance of exploring character to improve quality of the story
  • To apply knowledge by taking part in written and practical activities
  • To analyse effectiveness of techniques used by published writers
  • To evaluate own and peers writing through use of feedback
  • To create an extended piece of writing about their character

Suggested Reading for the course -

  • Slow Horses: Mick Heron
  • Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine: Gail Honeymoon
  • Girl, Woman, Other: Bernadine Evaristo
  • A Man Called Ove: Fredrik Backman
  • A Gentleman in Moscow: Amor Towles
  • Our Souls at Night: Kent Haruf
  • The Vanishing Half: Brit Bennett
  • Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: Anne Tyler

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

  • Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
  • Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

  • Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
  • Greater London
  • Greater Manchester
  • Liverpool City Region
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
  • Tees Valley
  • West of England
  • West Midlands
  • West Yorkshire

Any questions?

Check the FAQs page, or get in touch:



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