Creative Writing: A Master Class
by Academy of Achievement
This course material is only available in the iTunes U app on iPhone or iPad.
Course Description
Delve into the world of creative writing and hone your skills and knowledge on the craft with Creative Writing: A Master Class eCourse. Featuring a multi-media eTextbook, Creative Writing: Learning from the Masters, and nearly 40 audio and video podcasts containing unique insights from more than 30 authors, this course pulls back the curtain on the writing process. Learn from critically acclaimed and award winning authors who candidly and exclusively reveal their methods, challenges, and advice on the noble craft of creating fiction, and practice writing while analyzing the critical elements of fiction. Topics include:
- Sourcing Fiction
- Developing Plot
- Creating Characters
- Considering Point of View
- Tackling Revision
- Overcoming Challenges
- Finding Inspiration
- Exploring Method
- Taking Advice
Upon completion of this course, students will have gained a better understanding of the writing craft through intimate conversations with the best writers of modern time, including Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Ernest J. Gaines, Carol Shields, Amy Tan, and John Irving, the study and practice of the elements of fiction, and an understanding of method and process.
This multi-media eCourse is appropriate for students in high school, college, and beyond.
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| 1 | Creative Writing | Creative Writing: Learning from the Masters provides readers with a window into the extraordinary world of writing fiction. This interactive eBook gives aspiring writers and avid readers alike a unique look at how fiction is created by probing the minds and practices of six of today’s pre-eminent American authors as they share their most intimate practices. Explore the building blocks of fiction as they are artfully presented with thought-provoking examples and commentary from these award-winning authors. Delivered through candid and exclusive conversations, the impressions of these accomplished authors will spark imagination and ignite creativity in readers as they explore: Sourcing Fiction Developing Plot Creating Characters Considering Point of View Tackling Revision Overcoming Challenges Finding Inspiration Exploring Method Taking Advice Delve into the writing world and learn from the experiences of gifted authors Ernest J. Gaines, John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Carol Shields, and Amy Tan.  This multi-media eBook is appropriate for students in high school, college, and beyond. | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | Creative Writing eBook (Outside U.S.) | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | Ernest J. Gaines | Distinguished Author | 10:11 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | Hal David Interview | Dean of American Songwriters | 11:26 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | Nadine Gordimer | Nobel Prize for Literature | 10:04 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | Suzan-Lori Parks | Pulitzer Prize for Drama | 15:54 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | Carlos Fuentes | Author, Scholar and Diplomat | 11:09 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | Jackson Browne Live Performance (SD) | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 7:39 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | John Updike | Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction | 11:14 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | Sue Grafton | Award-winning Mystery Writer | 12:39 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | Khaled Hosseini | Author, "The Kite Runner" | 12:16 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | Michael Ondaatje | Author, The English Patient | 8:00 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | Edna O'Brien | Author | 16:07 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | Norman Mailer | Pulitzer Prize-winning Author | 19:09 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | John Irving | National Book Award | 14:25 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | Athol Fugard | Playwright, Actor and Director | 12:12 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | Toni Morrison | Nobel Prize for Literature | 17:44 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | Shelby Foote - Part 1 | Novelist and Historian | 8:27 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | Shelby Foote - Part 2 | Novelist and Historian | 10:44 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 20 | Wole Soyinka | Nobel Prize for Literature | 13:46 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 21 | Pat Conroy | Award-Winning Author | 12:13 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | Natasha Trethewey | Poet Laureate of the United States | 9:23 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 23 | W.S. Merwin | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | 13:42 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 24 | N. Scott Momaday (1993 Symposium) | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | 14:21 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | N. Scott Momaday (2007 Symposium) | Poet and Novelist | 11:06 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 26 | Frank McCourt (2008 Symposium) | Pulitzer Prize for Biography | 17:00 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 27 | Frank McCourt (1999 Symposium) | Pulitzer Prize for Biography | 11:12 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 28 | Gore Vidal | National Book Award | 9:28 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 29 | Nora Ephron - Part 1 | Author and Filmmaker | 14:36 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 30 | Nora Ephron - Part 2 | Author and Filmmaker | 7:18 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 31 | Arthur Golden | Best-selling Novelist | 13:40 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 32 | August Wilson | Pulitzer Prize in Drama | 7:51 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Amy Tan (1998 Symposium) | Best-Selling Novelist | 12:08 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Amy Tan (1996 Symposium) | Best-Selling Novelist | 7:28 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Joyce Carol Oates | National Book Award | 3:40 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rita Dove | Former U.S. Poet Laureate | 13:04 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Michael Crichton | Literary Phenomenon | 11:10 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Louis L'Amour | Best-Selling Author | 18:21 | Free | View in iTunes |
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E. L. Doctorow | National Book Award | 14:03 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Herman Wouk | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | 18:19 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Wallace Stegner | Pulitzer Prize | 11:24 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 42 | Alexander McCall Smith - Part 1 | Best-selling Author | 18:16 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 43 | Alexander McCall Smith - Part 2 | Best-selling Author | 11:18 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 44 | Louise Glück (SD) | Former Poet Laureate of the United States | 11:11 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 45 | Esperanza Spalding (HD) | Grammy-winning Bassist, Vocalist and Composer | 15:36 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 46 | Jean Auel | Story-Writing Phenomenon | 10:58 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
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Course materials are missing? Or am I missing something?
'Get' doesn't mean free
Why isn't price posted for "buy" before starting a course? Hate being misled.
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I'm wishing I would have read the reviews, or that the course creator had stated that only iPads were acceptable devices for use with this course.
I won't claim to have wasted a lot of time on this, because I didn't. But I will claim disappointment that I can't utilize this course. Oh well, I guess if they want to limit the amount of interested users, then so be it.
