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Finding Our Voices, Telling Our Stories: Part I

WCWP-40142

Within you there dwells an innate sense of storytelling and a unique voice with which to tell your stories. In this course you will explore writing techniques to help you locate and refine the "natural music" of your own voice. Through writing exercises and heavy journaling you will learn how to unearth the stories that want to be told. We will cover the role of conflict in creating stories, setting, description, revision, proofreading, and how to sustain the writing process. Expect to fill pages and pages in your writer's notebook with story seedlings, character sketches, monologues and dialogues, and the frames and foundations for your own personal narrative.

Course Information

Online
3.00 units
$550.00

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Creative Writing

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Section ID:

188172

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.

Textbooks:

All course materials are included unless otherwise stated.

Policies:

  • No refunds after: 4/11/2025
  • 1st no meeting date: 5/26/2025
  • Early Enrollment Discount: $525 ($550 if enrolled after 3/3/2025)

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This is an online course. There are no face-to-face class sessions. You will have access to this class on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed. 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.

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Instructor: William Carless

William Carless
Will Carless has spent 20 years working as a full-time journalist across the globe. He is currently USA TODAY’s national correspondent covering extremism and emerging issues. He was previously a correspondent covering extremism at the Center for Investigative Reporting. Before that, he worked as a foreign correspondent for Public Radio International in South and Central America and before that he was Head of Investigations at the Voice of San Diego. In his two decades in the profession, Will has worked in newspapers, radio, television and feature films. He has won national and international awards for his reporting, and has interviewed presidents, hardcore neo-Nazis, international superstars and fishermen on the Amazon river.  Will has traveled to more than 80 countries, reporting in most of them. He lives in California and is a keen surfer, snowboarder, mountain biker and gardener. He teaches Writer's Art of Interviewing and News and Feature Writing for the Creative Writing Program. 
 
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