Creative Writing

Would you like to see your writing in print? Could you write a best seller? Our experienced Creative Writing tutor will guide and help you to develop your writing skills throughout your Kilroy’s College Creative Writing course. If you have a clear interest in writing this course will enable you to fine tune your writing techniques and skills. You will learn how to improve you editing skills as well as sharpening your full perspective on the writing craft and how to improve the structure and flow in your writing.

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction

Unit 2: The rough draft

Unit 3: A question of approach

Unit 4: Settings

Unit 5: Character

Unit 6: Style

Unit 7: Other forms of writing

Unit 8: Finishing touches

This course is aimed at people who wish to develop the special skill of writing with confidence in their ability to write successfully. This course will help you to place you on firm ground in which you can build a real belief in yourself as a writer. Through hard work and perseverance you will learn many new writing techniques and learn to use your imagination to its full potential, whilst avoiding the usual pitfalls along the way.

How distance learning works:

Continuous Assessment

At the end of each unit, an assignment is completed and sent to your tutor at the college. Each one will be promptly returned to you with helpful comments and your next study unit. Throughout your course you will receive regular feedback and encouragement from your tutor to help ensure the successful completion of your studies.

Confidentiality

All your course work and any correspondence with the college will be treated as strictly private and confidential.

Textbook

An excellent textbook, carefully chosen by our course writers to compliment this study programme, will be sent to you with your first study units. This is yours to keep for future reference.

Our Diploma

Here at Kilroy’s College, our Diploma is awarded to students based on their work throughout their course. So, on successful completion of all your written assignments, you will receive your Kilroy’s College Diploma in Creative Writing.

The Future

Many of our students tell us that our courses have given them the confidence to go on to further study, to begin work or to change careers. Many of those in employment have received a promotion or an increase in salary as a result of completing a Kilroy’s College course.

Advantages:

• The College is open all year, so you can start studying at any time.
• This Creative Writing course allows you the flexibility and confidentiality of studying at home without having to take time out from work or other personal commitments.
• It offers you valuable savings in time and transportation because you complete your entire course from home.
• Once enrolled, you will receive everything that you need to get started in your student study pack.