Ignite and Reignite: Creative Writing with Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
Info
Date: November 6, 2024
Time: 6.00 pm - 9.00 pm
Duration: 4 weeks
Level: Beginner |
Cost: €360/€324
This course will take place online each Wednesday and Thursday evening for four weeks beginning Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 November.
Course Summary
This four week course (two sessions per week) is an online intensive writing development programme for beginning writers. It is suitable for people who have always longed to write but have not yet put pen to paper, or for those who may have been active writers in the past and want to reignite their commitment to their creative work.
Course Outline
PART 1: GETTING STARTED
- Session 1: On beginning – getting started with your creative writing
- Session 2: On being creative in your life and in your writing
PART 2: Focusing on craft
- Session 3: On the elements of great storytelling craft
- Session 4: On plot and structure – developing your ideas and creating story
PART 3: DEVELOPING AND ENHANCING
- Session 5: On making your personality connect with your writing and on giving and receiving feedback on creative work
- Session 6: On giving practical constructive feedback in workshop settings
PART 4: RELEASING AND PRESENTING YOUR CREATIVE WORK
- Session 7: On putting your work out into the world
- Session 8: On sharing, enhancing and performing your work
Course Outcomes
At the end of this programme, participants will have practised a suite of energising writing exercises, identified any barriers to writing and will have smoothed the way ahead for a disciplined and effective approach to integrating writing into their lives.
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald is an award winning teacher, researcher and novelist at the University of Limerick where she teaches creative writing. She was awarded a full professorship at UL in 2016 for her research and leadership in teaching and learning, and was Ireland’s inaugural chair of the board of the National Forum for the enhancement of teaching and learning. She’s part of the team that delivers UL’s New York Creative Writing Summer School and is founder of UL’s Creative Writing Winter School for mid-career writers. She’s the author of 7 novels including The Apple Tart of Hope and A Strange Kind of Brave. Her next novel, The Shark And The Scar was published in June 2022. Her work has been adapted for the stage and translated into over eighteen different languages.