Why Study this Dramatic Writing Course?

Do you have a story you want to write but you don’t know how to start?  Do you want to gain new techniques, skills and knowledge to further develop your writing skills? Then this may just be the course you are looking for! This online dramatic writing course will give you the fundamental knowledge needed for writing a drama from rising to ending, such as developing the theme, plot, subplot, and weaving them altogether to make a dramatic story, or short story with a dramatic theme.

Online Course in Dramatic Writing

Study Dramatic Writing at home.

Dramatic writing includes short stories, poems, novels, screen plays etc. If want to produce a dramatic work but are unsure about how to start this course is suitable for you.

Duration : 100 hours

You will learn to:

  • Define and develop an understanding of dramatic writing.
  • Develop methods of developing characters in dramatic writing.
  • Define different genres and develop themes for dramatic writing.
  • Develop techniques for developing your plot.
  • Describe techniques for weaving a story.
  • Develop a short story using dramatic writing.
  • Develop a chapter of dramatic writing.
  • Determine how to develop sub plots.

Course Structure

1. Introduction

  • Motivation
  • Typing time
  • Types of Writing
  • Making decisions about what to write; deciding the genre, know your stuff,  concept, synopsis, etc
  • Keeping a notebook
  • Process of Story Development
  • Planning what you Write
  • Developing your Voice
  • Terminology

2. Characters

  • Developing the characters
  • Building Characters
  • The Main Characters
  • Minor Characters

3. Theme & Genre

  • Developing a Theme
  • Universal Themes
  • Sub Themes
  • Creating Conflict
  • Names

4. Plot Development

  • Developing the big picture
  • Decisions to Make
  • Ambience
  • The end of a story Memoir
  • Biographies
  • Reflective Stories
  • Historical
  • Sense of Place
  • Opinionated Stories

5. Weaving a Story

  • Action, Emotion and Mirror Technique
  • Parallel Lives Technique
  • Palm Cards Technique
  • Let your Character Drive the Story
  • Developing a Story Line
  • Problems to Avoid
  • A Dialectical Approach
  • Other Approaches
  • How Character Affects Plot
  • Motive
  • Consequences
  • Flashbacks and Flash forwards

6. Writing a Dramatic Short Story

  • Who is the Antagonist
  • Who are the Main Characters
  • Developing a Sense of Place

7. Developing Sub Plots

  • Reasons for sub Plots
  • Ways to Develop sub Plots
  • Plants

8. Writing a Chapter for a Dramatic Novel or Play

  • Getting Published
  • Writing Resources
  • Writing as a Business
  • Vanity Publishing
  • Dealing with Publishers
  • Creating a Chapter or Segment of a larger work

Enrol Now

  • Experienced Tutor support
  • Certificate sent to you
  • Online study (Printed notes available)
  • Self paced - no set timetable
  • 12 months to complete course

$599.00

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    • Experienced Tutor support
    • Certificate sent to you
    • Online study (Printed notes available)
    • Self paced - no set timetable
    • 12 months to complete course

    $599.00

    Send me a free info pack

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      Accredited courses.
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      Why Study this Dramatic Writing Course?

      Do you have a story you want to write but you don’t know how to start?  Do you want to gain new techniques, skills and knowledge to further develop your writing skills? Then this may just be the course you are looking for! This online dramatic writing course will give you the fundamental knowledge needed for writing a drama from rising to ending, such as developing the theme, plot, subplot, and weaving them altogether to make a dramatic story, or short story with a dramatic theme.

      Online Course in Dramatic Writing

      Study Dramatic Writing at home.

      Dramatic writing includes short stories, poems, novels, screen plays etc. If want to produce a dramatic work but are unsure about how to start this course is suitable for you.

      Duration : 100 hours

      You will learn to:

      • Define and develop an understanding of dramatic writing.
      • Develop methods of developing characters in dramatic writing.
      • Define different genres and develop themes for dramatic writing.
      • Develop techniques for developing your plot.
      • Describe techniques for weaving a story.
      • Develop a short story using dramatic writing.
      • Develop a chapter of dramatic writing.
      • Determine how to develop sub plots.

      Course Structure

      1. Introduction

      • Motivation
      • Typing time
      • Types of Writing
      • Making decisions about what to write; deciding the genre, know your stuff,  concept, synopsis, etc
      • Keeping a notebook
      • Process of Story Development
      • Planning what you Write
      • Developing your Voice
      • Terminology

      2. Characters

      • Developing the characters
      • Building Characters
      • The Main Characters
      • Minor Characters

      3. Theme & Genre

      • Developing a Theme
      • Universal Themes
      • Sub Themes
      • Creating Conflict
      • Names

      4. Plot Development

      • Developing the big picture
      • Decisions to Make
      • Ambience
      • The end of a story Memoir
      • Biographies
      • Reflective Stories
      • Historical
      • Sense of Place
      • Opinionated Stories

      5. Weaving a Story

      • Action, Emotion and Mirror Technique
      • Parallel Lives Technique
      • Palm Cards Technique
      • Let your Character Drive the Story
      • Developing a Story Line
      • Problems to Avoid
      • A Dialectical Approach
      • Other Approaches
      • How Character Affects Plot
      • Motive
      • Consequences
      • Flashbacks and Flash forwards

      6. Writing a Dramatic Short Story

      • Who is the Antagonist
      • Who are the Main Characters
      • Developing a Sense of Place

      7. Developing Sub Plots

      • Reasons for sub Plots
      • Ways to Develop sub Plots
      • Plants

      8. Writing a Chapter for a Dramatic Novel or Play

      • Getting Published
      • Writing Resources
      • Writing as a Business
      • Vanity Publishing
      • Dealing with Publishers
      • Creating a Chapter or Segment of a larger work

      Enrol Now

      • Experienced Tutor support
      • Certificate sent to you
      • Online study (Printed notes available)
      • Self paced - no set timetable
      • 12 months to complete course

      $599.00

       

      Get a Free Info Pack!

        CourseStream Accreditation.
        Accredited courses.