With Stratford’s Creative Writing program, you will learn how to shape your writing into powerful short stories that are ready for publication. You may even decide to turn this profitable hobby into a money-making career!
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Stratford Career Institute's creative writing diploma program will help you develop the knowledge and skills necessary for success as an author. The course focuses on the medium of the short story and covers all phases of skillful fiction writing. Areas of concentration include theme and strategy, characters and viewpoint, plot, dialogue, and revision. Professional authors share tips and provide detailed examples.
Stratford's creative writing program is based upon a close interaction between you and your instructor. Each piece you submit is carefully reviewed by your instructor and returned with comments, corrections and suggestions as to how the story can be better shaped and improved. Your instructor will examine the elements of theme, character, point-of-view, plot and scene. Using your instructor’s suggestions as a guideline, you will find your work greatly improved.
You will learn how to edit and rewrite your material and to realize the value of this process. You will also discover what makes editors choose one particular work of fiction over another. To start you on your career, Stratford provides you with the addresses, phone numbers, tips from the editors and submission guidelines for more than 4000 markets where short stories can be published. This will help you market your finished pieces and finally get your work into print.
Take up to two years to complete your course or earn your diploma in less than a year!
Stratford Career Institute is an innovative leader in the field of distance learning in Canada. With thousands of students world-wide, SCI has earned its reputation as a leading authority in career training.
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