Course Title: A Writer's Guide to Descriptive Settings
Hours required: 24
Price: $99
Length course offered: 6 Weeks
Instructor: Lori Wilde [Bio]
Description:
You may live among the prickly pears, dust devils, and intense sun of the desert. Or you may reside in a small town nestled alongside cornfields. Or perhaps you live in the big city and take a train in to work every day.
No matter where you live, your surroundings have special physical, historical, and spiritual characteristics that you can--and should--rely on to breathe life into any work of fiction or nonfiction.
During this course, you'll learn to tap into the world you know in order to establish a realistic sense of place in your writing. You'll develop your eye for detail, and you'll find out how to collect the information you'll need to infuse your works with believable characters, memorable settings, and detailed descriptions.
This hands-on course is filled with a variety of valuable exercises that will help you hone your skills of observation, interviewing, collecting oral histories, remembering details and descriptions, reproducing dialogue and diction, using figurative language, developing realistic characters, and more.
Goals:
By the time you finish this course, you'll be well-prepared to create truly unique works filled with vivid and meaningful observations of the people, places, foods, customs, and events in not only your local community, but also in places that exist only in your memory.
Grading System:
Confirmation of Completion awarded with passing score.
School Description:
No matter where you live, you will be able to take any of our comprehensive, convenient online courses offered in connection with a college or university near you. Click "Enroll Now" to find the partner school for the course you want to take.
Instructor Bio: Lori Wilde
Lori Wilde has published 49 romance novels with Harlequin, Time Warner, St. Martin's Press, and Harper Collins. Her novels have been translated into 17 languages and her work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and Quick and Simple magazines.
She is a four-time nominee for Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award and she is a former finalist for the Romance Writers of America prestigious RITA award. Several of her books have appeared on the Waldenbooks bestseller list. Her novels have garnered accolades from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. She is a former registered nurse and for the last 10 years has made her living writing romance.
