When you learn the foundations to write engaging fiction in our Creative Writing Stage 1 course, you gain the basic skills to craft your own stories that hum along like a well-oiled machine. However, as you progress along such a creative path, you may find there still are areas of the machine that “squeak” – certain techniques that you’d like to build more confidence in and truly master.

That’s where our family of Fiction Essentials courses come in.

MEET THE FICTION ESSENTIALS

Created by Pamela Freeman – author of more than 40 books and AWC’s Creative Director – Fiction Essentials are a set of flexible courses that provide the perfect companion to your writing journey. Each one takes a deep dive into six core areas of all good storytelling.

Perhaps you’d like to create more memorable characters or use dialogue and scenes in a more compelling way? Maybe it’s your narrative structure or point of view that you struggle with? Or you’d simply like to brush up on your grammar and punctuation to make the best impression on agents and publishers? With Fiction Essentials, you select the area you’d like to focus on and start learning. Choose one course, two, three, all six … it’s completely up to you!

Each valuable self-paced guide gives you 12 months’ unlimited access to the course material – the ideal online reference right there at your fingertips.