Whether you are writing short fiction, a novel, or memoir, characters are what draw your reader in and make them care enough to read on. This course offers methods for creating three-dimensional characters that your readers will react to, relate to and remember. You will acquire a toolkit of exercises to help you develop or more clearly define both primary and secondary characters. Exercises and assignments will help you fill a notebook with character sketches and scenes, and help you start a chapter or short story featuring your most unforgettable character.
Course Number: WCWP-40245
Credit: 2.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Creative Writing
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9/25/2023 - 11/4/2023
$305
Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Online Asynchronous.
This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Humphrey, Elizabeth King, Associate manager of corporate communications and a freelance editor, writer, and book designer.
Elizabeth King Humphrey works for a large corporation where she writes, edits, and manages a variety of communications. Prior editorial work has included contributing pieces to The Writer and Scientific American Mind, as well as editing for Amazon's CreateSpace and independent authors. Humphrey received her University of Chicago editing certificate in 2011 and a graduate certificate in technical and professional communications in 2012. She enjoys teaching Copyediting I and Digital Landscape for Editors for the Copyediting Certificate Program .
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TEXTBOOKS:
REQUIREDElements of Fiction 1st
by Mosley, Walter
ISBN / ASIN: 9780802147639
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping 1st
by Salesses, Michael
ISBN / ASIN: 9781948226806
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
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POLICIES:
No refunds after: 9/29/2023.
Early Enrollment Discount: $280 ($305 if enrolled after 9/4/2023).
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NOTE:
"This is an online course; all class sessions are taught
online. There are no face-to-face class sessions. You
will have access to your online course on the published
start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is
confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start
date.
To login to your course, go to your MyExtension
account, select My Courses, select this course and then
click the link that appears in the LOCATION section."
9/25/2023 - 11/4/2023
extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
There are no sections of this course currently scheduled. Please contact the Arts, Humanities, Languages & Digital Arts department at 858-534-5760 or ahl@ucsd.edu for information about when this course will be offered again.