Building on the foundations of Creative Writing for Beginners this course gives you the opportunity to both practice skills you have acquired, as well as tackle new activities and types of creative of writing.
Creative Writing for Beginners - Next Steps
About this course
Building on the foundations of Creative Writing for Beginners this course gives you the opportunity to both practice skills you have acquired, as well as tackle new activities and types of creative of writing.
The course will also give you more scope to practice your feedback skills, and to start to use your reading as part of your writing. This is an intermediate course. To get the most from the course, it is advisable to have done some creative writing before, such as Inspire’s Writing for Beginners or First Steps in Creative Writing.
During this course, we will cover:
Reading as a writer
Developing feedback skills and being able to use others’ feedback to develop your work
Techniques to develop rounded characters
Tackling convincing dialogue
Writing short pieces that are developed into longer stories
Developing your writing practice by planning how you want to develop as a writer
Learners should bring:
Pen and notepad, preferably A4
About Us
Who we are
Inspire: Culture, Learning and Libraries is a charitable community benefit society delivering cultural and learning services across Nottinghamshire. The society is owned and controlled by its members. Members are drawn from the community, and all staff become members of the society when appointed. The society is governed by a board of 12 elected and nominated directors, including a staff elected board member.
All members act in the interest of the society to uphold its objects for the benefit of the public of the Midlands;
(a) the provision or assistance in the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation in the interest of social welfare and with the object of improving the conditions of life for the public at large and for persons who by youth age infirmity or disablement poverty or social or economic circumstances may have need for such facilities;
(b) to advance the education of people who live work or study in or who visit the area of benefit
Inspire delivers the following services:
Archives and Heritage (includes Nottingham City)
Arts in the community
Learning and Skills Service
Education Library Service (includes Nottingham City)
Instrumental Music Teaching in Schools
Nottinghamshire Music Hub
Public Libraries
Records Management for the County Council
Youth Arts
We're an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, which means funding thanks to taxpayers and National Lottery players plays a huge part in supporting our work.
Inspire became a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) in 2018 resulting in a £1.2M investment between 2018 – 2023 from Arts Council England to deliver a cultural programme through the library service. Inspire are delighted to remain part of the National Portfolio for 2023-2026 and will receive £504,599 each year for this three-year period.
Inspire is also the host organisation for the Cultural Education Partnership (CEP) for Ashfield and Mansfield.
We deliver services from 67 buildings across Nottinghamshire and 4 vehicles, have over 750 people working for us and have an annual turnover of £17.2M.
Our Forward Plan 2022-26 outlines the challenges and development we need to focus on over the coming years. The plan identifies the priorities, outcomes and enabling work we need to achieve to ensure Inspire continues to be successful and sustainable. The highlights of the plan and our most recent annual review can be found under the about-us tab.
Our staff are core to the success of the society; to work for Inspire is to work for a charity, membership body and social enterprise. We aim to be professional and friendly. We have at our heart a passion for culture, heritage and learning.
It aims to encourage learners to have the confidence to write stories, poems and much more in a creative and imaginative style. This course encourages learners to use and stretch their imaginations and express their creative energy with words.
I help people to achieve success and confidence in their lives,
We have registered over 360,000 learners throughout our history and worked with over 400 organisations. OCN NI are at the forefront of education within Northern Ireland. We want to be your Awarding Organisation of choice.
Writing and Preparing Course Materials This Course Is Offered By H2 Training Consultancy
Writing is everywhere. From the films we watch, the TV we stream and the books we read, to the social media posts we write, the marketing pitches that surround us and the news stories we receive across print and digital formats. Increasingly too, that writing is not produced by people, but by AI.
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